Lo que pase

Guardarraya, a fun band we saw at the Cuenca independent music festival Welcome back to Lo Que Pase. Since our last post, the Beesley family has settled back into a life of routine in Cuenca. The kids are all fully in the swing of their classrooms and now have friends and know when they have assignments due. It’s been a truly amazing process to watch them acquire near fluency in Spanish. And Nick and Susie have become immersed in various projects like volunteering and writing, studying and creating. We’ve started to forget what we miss and almost feel at home here. We’ve been on far fewer adventures outside of the city, which has allowed our Cuenca life to become fuller.  Beautiful Cuenca at night Chess with the neighbors Riverside fire with friends Friday night zumba in the park Carnaval festivities at Robin’s school Carnaval!! Sam with his friends from school. One of these is not like the other….. Robin with her classmates Lunch with friends Sam at school Susie gives a mother/dau...

What?!  Another publication of Lo Que Pase?! But it's barely been a month since the last installment! How can it be? Well, it's been a big month for the Beesleys in Ecuador. We took advantage of a last minute deal and went to the Galapagos. We were blown away by the landscapes and wildlife and decided to dedicate an entire post to this experience.  Robin keeps us on schedule and shares a mountain of photos in What We Did and What We Saw Locke's keen eye never misses an animal. Check out his list: Animals of the Galapagos Sam will take you on a journey through ancient time in Galapagos Geology Nick explores underwater videography in Snorkelfest 2022 Susie shares her fiction debut in The Survival of the Fittest Thanks for reading, friends. We love you! And until next time , Pase lo que pase, la vida continúa . Getting ready for our flight back to the mainland Until next tine, Galapagos!

                                           ¡Vale Vale! Happy New Year! Welcome back to Lo Que Pase. We’ve done a lot in the past couple of months which is reflected in the absurd length of Nick’s piece.  If you get sleepy and just look at the pictures, he says he’ll understand.  The rest of the Beesleys have brought you pieces related to local economics and economic issues. We hope you enjoy!  ¡Pasen bien!  Nick will bring you up to speed with all that we’ve been up to in Acclimatization Susie explores The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis  and its effects in Ecuador Sam describes how Ecuador converted its currency from sucres to dollars in Dollarization Locke figures out the dimentions and the vender locations of Cuenca’s biggest market in Mapping the Maze. And Robin shows us just how far your can stretch your money in What You Can Get For a Dol...

 Aquí estamos      Here we are. It’s been almost 5 months since we left Anchorage and 3.5 months since arriving in Cuenca. And it’s been 2 months since our first blog post. It turns out, we are not super bloggers! We hope that this next installment of “lo que pase” finds you and yours well. We will be missing family and friends over the next week as it is the season of celebrating community and giving thanks. We give thanks for our lives, our health, each other, the earth and it’s abundance, and each of you, our community, We plan to celebrate “día de acción de gracias” by cooking an Ecuador-adapted thanksgiving meal for our neighbors, who have become friends.      In our second blog posting, you will again find a contribution from each Beesley. This installment is mostly about getting out lives set up in Cuenca and weathering some of the storms that have come with adapting to life here. We each will give you a glimpse of our Ecuador lives.  Susie...

                                                                                                  ¡ Vámonos!                                                                                          Hello family, friends, and curious visitors. Welcome to “lo que pase,” the Beesley family blog!   Translated as "whatever happens," "lo que pase" captures the air of flexibility and uncer...