A Voice in the Wilderness - Blog

List of 5 news stories.

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  Why is Lake Omar green? (And some other interesting facts)

  9/10/2025
  Shawnigan’s aquatic centrepiece, Lake Omar, has undergone many changes over the decades, and has been the focus of a major remediation project over the last year. Unrelated to that project, it is covered this fall with what appears from a distance to be a film of algae, but on closer inspection is in fact millions of tiny plants known as duckweed. Environmental Lead and Horticulturalist Ms. Patricia Hanbidge explains.
  
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  Trekking in Sindhupalchok

  9/5/2025
  In the summer before his Grade 12 year, Shawnigan student Dorje Sherpa returned to Nepal where he stopped by his old boarding school, Shree Mangval Dvip School in Kathmandu, and took the opportunity to go trekking in the Sindhupalchok area, where he saw his ancestral village for the first time in 17 years, visited a monastery under construction, and journeyed to his mother’s childhood home.
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  Shawnigan in the Summer

  9/4/2025
  Without students, a lot of schools go quiet in the summer months. That’s not the case with private and boarding schools, and Shawnigan certainly stays busy even as students are at their homes near and far, with staff members, camps, and other events keeping the campus buzzing.
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  I Believe in Patriotism

  8/14/2025
  Every year, the “This I Believe” evening of speeches by graduating students showcases a wide range of topics and emotions as Shawnigan students bare their souls by reading aloud pieces they have written about topics close to their hearts. As part of the English curriculum at Shawnigan, all Grade 12 students prepare essays about a topic of their choice, reflecting in some way on takeaways from their high school experience, and read it to their classmates. The following is Desi Shaw’s contribution to this year’s event.
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  I Believe in Plants

  7/31/2025
  Every year, the “This I Believe” evening of speeches by graduating students showcases a wide range of topics and emotions as Shawnigan students bare their souls by reading aloud pieces they have written about topics close to their hearts. As part of the English curriculum at Shawnigan, all Grade 12 students prepare essays about a topic of their choice, reflecting in some way on takeaways from their high school experience, and read it to their classmates. The following is Anna Asprey’s contribution to this year’s event.
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