Katherine Sand, Renee Giles and Megan Monaghan, Growing Community. Aspen Daily News- May 17, 2023 In this column we frequently talk about the challenges of modern parenting, and that’s undoubtedly because these are such universal experiences. Parents of children of any age talk to us every day about their lives,... read more →
May
15
Nolan Balmat, from our sister city of Chamonix, France has been in Aspen since August, 2022. He has been going to Aspen High School this year and has had many amazing experiences from playing hockey with his host brother and training all winter in Glenwood Springs, to traveling with the... read more →
Apr
22
Building genuine bonds between different communities. From February 5-14, 2023, Aspen families hosted 13 students and two chaperones from Abetone, Italy, and the surrounding region. While in Aspen, the Abetone students and chaperones did a variety of activities including a snowshoe tour on the top of Ajax with ACES, a visit... read more →
Feb
14
The U.S. is uncomfortably stimulating. The U.S. is loud and unruly. The U.S. is foreign. Nine 8th graders from Shimukappu, Japan traveled to Aspen for ten days at the beginning of January. Ideally, I would have been more aware of these three possible experiences of theirs before we left rural... read more →
Jan
27
On a brisk, sunny January afternoon at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, the clicks of cameras snapping away blended with the sounds of a nature preserve as about a dozen visitors from Shimukappu, Japan documented the flora and fauna of Hallam Lake. The group of nine teenagers and several... read more →