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...
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Apr
25
Middle School Student Exchange 2023. After four years Aspen received the Bariloche students again! A group of fifteen students and two chaperones from Capraro, San Patricio and Woodville schools came to the Roaring Fork Valley from April 9th to the 22nd. Huge thanks to the families who hosted and helped...
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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...
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Apr
21
Dear Members of Sister Cities and Challenge Aspen, Thank you would be the single word I would use to describe the 2023 Bariloche-Aspen adaptive skiing exchange. Every situation, with every person we had the pleasure of interacting with, in every context, would have the word repeated over and over, and...
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Mar
21
Challenge Aspen organized an apres ski event to celebrate and support its sister program "Desafio Bariloche". Three members of this organization, Paul Wray, Joaquin Garcia Jurjo and Mariana Neira, came to the Roaring Fork Valley to participate in the Adaptive Skiing Exchange, volunteering for Challenge Aspen for two weeks. Aspen...
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Mar
11
Please join us in celebrating the growing relationship between the artist community of both the Roaring Fork Valley and Bariloche, Argentina. Along with other past exchange artists, Deb Jones will share her September 2022 ten- day exchange experience in Bariloche. Come learn more about the Aspen Sister Cities artist exchange...
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Feb
16
Aspen and Bariloche complete another successful medical exchange. "To everyone who gave us their time and space, thank you! Everyone participated in one way or another to make us feel at home. To be able to learn and grow as a professional and as a person... thank you very much!...
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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...
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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...
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Jan
19
Aspen and Shimukappu, Japan have been sister cities for thirty years and for thirty years the student exchange has been creating bonds between families of both communities. It was the Aspen students' turn to receive and host a group of nine Shimukkapu students from January 4th to the 13th, after...
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