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…
Elizabeth alternated between working the reins and gripping the saddle horn while the 800-pound horse beneath her buckled its body around an upright barrel. Clay soil clots spat out from the hooves as the horse charged through the tight turns in the cloverleaf pattern around two other barrels. Elizabeth drove her heels against the horse’s…
The frigid river water gush-a-tumbled over and around the gray lump boulders. Rapid currents twisted and flexed like slick muscles. “We have to cross here,” Teresa Malone announced to the twenty or so people—nearly every staff member and teacher from the Durango Adult Education Center—assembled on the shore during a daylong work retreat. She was…
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…
Lunchbox? Check. Backpack? Check. Notebooks, pencils, calculators. Triple check! There’s nothing quite like the helter-skelter cycle of the back-to-school bonanza. Teachers and staff at the Durango Adult Education Center have been busier than ever, but it’s not because they needed lesson plans prepped or handouts updated. In fact, it’s because we expanded services to Montezuma…
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…
