Hola from Peru!!
We have remained in Peru for 4 days now and we've currently fallen for this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has actually already offered in amazing methods. We will be in Lima for the next number of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be living with a Peruvian household for a month while we go to language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will discover Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to transfer to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another nation, we discovered that almost everybody was curious to understand exactly HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we discovered in packaging to move overseas ... Take pleasure in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packing is frustrating (I will be stating that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you resemble most of us, you have a lot of things, so leaving all of it for the last minute will worry you out more. You may forget things or potentially take too much. Julian and I started about 3 months ahead of time by getting rid of clothes and things we didn't require occasionally (a lot of journeys to Goodwill). And we also began buying trunks early since they can get quite expensive so spreading that out helps. I likewise began posting advertisements early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had good friends purchase a great deal of our things in advance to pick it up when we were prepared to move. Also making a list of whatever that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but comes in convenient when dealing with custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your House
This is actually for the memories. The home we vacated was our first home together and it implied a lot to us. So the images are simply for us to keep in mind and maybe show our future family one day, to understand where it all started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have actually been a supporter for packing cubes considering that my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. On that journey, I could only take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we bought as much of them as we could and were able to get the majority of my clothes into one luggage. I will not lie, though packing cubes are great, packing all my clothes and trying to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limitation was INCREDIBLY STRESSFUL and caused me many breakdowns haha (simply being honest).
4. Discover Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Inquire ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a great deal of other people where telling us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that essential ... initially. But a few months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we connected to another medical professional named Ari, who is actually presently residing in the home we will be moving into. She has actually genuinely been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 3 times a week till we moved here. I asked her anything to everything: from the size of the cooking area shelves to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packing Party!
Invite someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem informing you "you do not require that", and who can handle you being stressed out. Our buddy Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and spent the entire day, going through our things, making the calls we could not make on what we should bring, donate, or shop. She assisted us load everything in our trunks and assisted make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Learn to Let Go ...
At the end of the day you are moving overseas and can not take whatever with you and will have to let go of a lot ... A Great Deal Of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy thing about keeping EVERY pen he owned since college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's assistance Julian is now devoid of his pen addiction. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Stuff!
This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took lots of journeys to Goodwill, however we likewise enabled our good friends to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they wanted. It was truly cool to understand that our things were going into the houses of people we love!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other individuals that have done what we are simulating Julian's parents, everybody said the exact same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bedding was extremely crucial, also good knives, a few framed images of our friends and family, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we made certain to load!
9. Chill Out and Take A 2nd ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Circumstance!!
As I have actually pointed out, packing is frustrating. At any caliber it can honestly make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a 2nd to yell, recognize the turmoil around you, and then simply laugh since it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your house has never ever looked even worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and showering without a shower drape while attempting not to get too much water on the floor, eating in restaurants of the same bowl for every meal, and just have one good t-shirt considering that all the rest of your clothing are packed. You're not living your typical life and its frustrating, but if you take a look at a distance, its likewise funny, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your home, go check out the city you are leaving, meet friends, and enjoy yourself, that truly helped us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its actually fun to look back now on how much Julian and I performed in such little time. Here are some images of our last few months in Houston!
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