Last weekend, we celebrated Lunar New Year with a special dinner of take out Chinese food. Epicurean heated and served a delicious meal from The China Palace in Novato.

With fall and winter holidays coming in quick succession, and most weeks punctuated by birthdays, it feels like we're always celebrating something in the dorms!

We've had another fun and productive week in the dorms! On Friday, we baked Mexican wedding cookies by special request, while students played a rousing game of Taboo using "Mercedes" rules.

After a long month of break and a week of returns, we are settling back into our routines this week. While some students stayed at San Domenico throughout the break, most went home and returned before classes began last week.

This last weekend was all about getting into the holiday spirit. We baked and decorated cookies, made gingerbread houses, enjoyed barbecues with Santa Churchill, made strings of popcorn and cranberries for our beautiful tree in Mercedes, watched Christmas movies, and drank endless cups of hot cider.

It's the Holiday Season and we are feeling it in the dorms! With our beautiful holiday-trimmed tree in Mercedes, menorah on the table, lights hanging outside, a chill in the air, and lots of fun plans for the weekend, we're experiencing many of the joys of the season.

The holidays represent a special time in our lives. Many of our students miss celebrating holidays like Lunar New Year with their families and friends, or birthdays, Christmas, Hanukkah, and any of the many holidays our students celebrate. While nothing can ever take the place of the familiar and rich traditions we are accustomed to, we do make an effort in the dorms to acknowledge and celebrate birthdays and holidays, creating our own traditions together.

The San Francisco Bay Area features some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. In addition to benefiting from our incredible 515-acre campus and its surrounding trails, we are now able to explore some of the many incredible areas surrounding our School.

The San Francisco Bay Area features some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. In addition to benefiting from our incredible 515-acre campus and its surrounding trails, we are now able to explore some of the many incredible areas surrounding our School.

This Halloween was unique in several ways: it fell on a Saturday, with a full “blue” moon, during a pandemic, and we were determined to make the most of it!

We in Boarding and in the broader San Domenico community are beyond proud of how well our students have adapted to being on campus for weeks and months on end - some going back to last spring, with only a few trips off campus, and no one has been off campus for an outing since school began.

This was a busy week in the dorms as each class returned to in-person learning, grade by grade. For our boarding students, who have been on campus, they adjusted to being back in the classroom and seeing their teachers and day student friends again.

Sheltering in place is not easy. While our weekdays look pretty similar to life before March 14, our weekends under normal conditions would be spent going on trips to San Francisco, to the mall or the movies, or going home for those who live in the Bay Area.

Sheltering in place is not easy. While our weekdays look pretty similar to life before March 14, our weekends under normal conditions would be spent going on trips to San Francisco, to the mall or the movies, or going home for those who live in the Bay Area.

During a much-appreciated three-day weekend, students enjoyed movie nights, barbecues, and Open Gym.