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 covers the basics with Hogar Cuenca

Nick takes you on an aesthetic journey with Where’s the Grime?

Sam takes you through his daily journey of language learning in Lenguaje

Locke covers transport in We Get Around

Robin tells you about The Fruit I’ve Never Seen

    You will see from our entries that this time has not been easy. We are stretching beyond our comfort levels and growing in ways that are both painful and fulfilling. We were introduced to a beautiful and poignant song in the Cuyabeno jungle. The song, “Sobreviviendo,” written by Victor Heredia in 1974 is about the struggle to survive with scarce means and to live through the aftermath of war.  These are heavier themes than we explore in our post or are experiencing but the lyrics are beautiful and speak overcoming challenges. Here, it is performed by Illapu, a Chilean band, and in our home, Nick performs it for whoever is listening.  

On the teleférico in Quito