Sandwich Saturday Club at VDL

This weekend the club was a success, many of our girls were looking forward to Sandwich Saturday.

Its a time where we can all get together, enjoy a movie, as well as delicious homemade sandwiches.

This weekend we had fresh baguette, tomatoes, avocado, pesto rosso, and some amazing salami for those who preferred the non-veg option.

Its becoming a small tradition in the house, even other houses are were wondering if they can join.

 

Versoix Diversity Movie

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.

Sandwich Saturday Club

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.

 

Legends of Space Conference

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.

Maslenitsa (Belarusian: Масленіца, Russian: Мaсленица, Rusyn: Fašengy, Ukrainian: Масниця; aka Crepe week)

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!

P.S. Interesting fact – Burning woman

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.