After 18 hours laboring on the construction site, Gaston Diaz feels like a broken toy. Every bone and muscle aches. He nurses torn knee tendons and broken discs in his spine. He gets very little rest around his other grueling job as a housekeeper. Working seven days a week, the 30-year-old sometimes thinks he’s much…
A Love So Moving Siti Maesaroh had two suitcases. She could not fit in them the entirety of her home in Indonesia with its soft, humid heat and its spicy sweet foods. Nor could she pack her aunt who’d raised her. And she couldn’t pack her beloved cat. Moving across the globe for love to…
Do dreams come with expiration dates? When should you rule out a goal as out of reach or impossible? Ed Lettman was days away from high school graduation when the principal expelled him. The offense? “Fraternizing,” Lettman alludes with his characteristic wry chuckle. He points out the 1970s were different times for young…
Here it is, at last! The top ten fun, exciting, mysterious ways you can support the Durango Adult Education Center as we celebrate our 30th year of excellence in education and community transformation. The remaining five is printed in our fall newsletter located on our webpage. Please contact us at info@durangoadulted.org if you want to…
Once again, we’ve assembled a list of ways you, your friends, and colleagues can celebrate and support the Durango Adult Education Center’s three decades of galvanizing the community through continuous learning opportunities. You’ll see that as we approach the top ten items in our 30-for-30 Challenge, we offer this caution: some of these ideas are…
It’s back—our list of 30 ways everyone can celebrate the DAEC’s 30th anniversary—while simultaneously supporting our next 30 years making meaningful changes in the lives of adult learners. This time we take you out to sea and into beehives, back in time and to the frontlines of revolution! Are you ready? The Countdown …
Has it been “raining cats and dogs” in your neighborhood recently? Do you think learning English is “a piece of cake?” Or have you been “feeling under the weather” with summer allergies? The Rule of Thumb Is There Are No Rules Idioms, expressions, colloquialisms are so commonplace the average native speaker of a language hardly…
School’s out, the sun shines bright, and even though we miss our students, we’re still celebrating 30 amazing years of providing life-changing opportunities to adult learners in and around Durango. In this second installment, you’ll find five more ways to join in the fun and support our organization. How many will you do? The Countdown…
No matter how hard it was, Myriam Costantino Balageur knew she could not quit. No matter how tired she felt; no matter how many times she failed, she absolutely could not give up on her education. She was going to earn her GED. “What will my children think if I quit,” Myriam reflects. “I had…
Archaeologists estimate each pyramid on the Giza Plateau required 30 years to reach completion. The same is true of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Washington Monument, Herod’s Temple, and of course, the Durango Adult Education Center! Building anything meant to stand the test of time takes more than decades. We at the DAEC…
