Liz (Bernier) Saucier ‘97 and Chris Saucier ‘96

It's not an overstatement to say that our experience at LAS changed the course of our lives. After all, the two of us met as students at LAS in 1995 and were married seven years later! That’s why when our children, Austin (18) and Taylor (15), came along, we knew that when the time was right, we had to give them the opportunity to share our LAS experience.

We wanted them to not just hear our stories about Leysin, but to have their own experiences and generate their own stories! For us, LAS Summer in Switzerland was the perfect opportunity for them to develop those experiences. The friends they made from around the world and the activities they took part in at SIS have left them positively changed for the better. 

Last summer when we picked them up, along with their cousin, who also attended SIS, we noticed that even in just the few short weeks that they were in Leysin, the kids' vocabularies had changed! They were talking about places like Eagle’s Nest and the Savoy, taking the cog, the crazy bus rides down the mountain, hiking in Les Diablerets, and eating spaghetti while sitting on the glacier. 

It warmed our hearts to hear them share these things with us, without us even telling them that we had many of the same memories; it's WAY better to hear it from them. And perhaps the icing on the cake was that Taylor was assigned to Savoy room 508, the same room where Chris lived his junior year. While the rooming assignment was completely by chance, we like to think that it was meant to be.