This year the Boarding community has been trying to foster more engagement with our neighbours in Versoix. We are very happy to share with you a movie that was made by local people, sponsored by the Mairie de Versoix, focusing on the diversity in our community. Our borders Herluce, Inès and Victor feature in this interesting film- it is worth watching in its entirety (the film is under half an hour), but if you are in a hurry our kids are at the 16.00 mark.
The girls are getting ready for graduation!
On Friday our seniors took their graduation pictures.
Prefects pictures
Alex and Lisa
At Sandwich Saturday Club, we eat delicious sandwiches every other weekend.
Many girls joined the club today, amongst which we had Herluce, Ines, Farah, Veronika, Sofiya, Lola, and Sara.
They enjoyed their sandwiches along with great company.
Today, our boarders got to go to a once in a life time event, Legends of Space.
From Villa du Lac, Sara, Ines, and Sofiya had the honor to go meet some legends.
In the conference we had 2 moonwalkers, David Scott (Apollo XV) and Charlie Duke (Apollo XVI ) , as well as Claude Nicollier (First and only Swiss astronaut) and many more surprises.
Singers-songwriters Mark Armstrong and Kali Armstrong, son and granddaughter of legendary Apollo 11 Astronaut and Commander Neil Armstrong, presented an emotional special music performance tribute to the heroes of human spaceflight and exploration.
This gallery contains 13 photos.
Last ski weekend in Crans Montana. Girls perfected their skills skiing and snowboarding. We also joined fun activities such as bingo, realfly simulation, snowtubing, excursion and others. Open the gallery to see the memories we made this weekend!
Puzzle completed!
Final results as promised.
The girls had a great time, a bit stressful, but they manage to put the 1000 piece puzzle together!
Good job everyone!
This weekend we took the challenge to finish a 1000 pieces puzzle.
Many girls joined in to help finish the puzzle.
We are yet to finish this one, but we will update you when we do!
Happy Sunday everyone!
Starting the weekend with a lot of energy from our girls at the tennis court.
Lovely start of the weekend.
This week is an Eastern Slavic celebration called Maslenitsa.
As you might have guessed, Maslenitsa is all about pancakes or blini (they are more like french crepes, rather than fluffy American pancakes).They are freshly made every day and supposedly symbolize the Sun, so by eating pancakes, people consume its warmth and energy. Today Sofiya, Akmaral and house tutor Alina were making pancakes and sharing their traditions with everyone.
We are also very proud to say that Emma and Sara now know how to make and flip the pancakes!
The grand finale of the pancake week is burning the effigy of Maslenitsa, a straw stuffed doll, dressed in female clothes, which marks the imminent end of winter. In the old days people also threw pancakes into the fire as a form of funeral repast for the “dying” winter.
Today is the final day of our Well Being Project, Number 3. Building Positive Relationships.
We would like to share with you some of the projects VDL girls did.
Throughout the wellbeing pillar, girls have put into the word cloud system 5 words that came to their mind when they thought of the word ‘friend’. That’s what came out of it. The bigger the words are, the more used they were.
Lulu surprised her friend with the portrait.
Lisa and Valentina just became roommates and decided to write about how to be in good relationships with your roommate.
Valentina and Ana Lucia explored the topic of boundaries in friendship.
Natalia and Fernanda decided to make a Tik-tik video about toxic friendship.
Yasmina – It was so awesome, we discussed what matters in a friendship and what to avoid
Sofiya – For our well-being project, my friends and I decided to have a virtual picnic and discuss the topic of friendships and especially toxic friendships. We found out about each other’s preferences in friends and what are the most important characteristics we wish to have in a friend. Also, we talked about our different friendship experiences, both good and bad, and discussed red and green flags in friendships. As well as that, we talked about friend groups, whether we prefer to have a big or small friend group, how not to get lost in a group like that, and most importantly how to get out of a toxic friend group. I really enjoyed the conversation we had, and I learned a lot about friendships.
This was a very exciting well-being pillar and many of us enjoyed being involved in the projects. Thank you to everyone, who participated and put the effort into making this wellbeing project more exciting.