Hola from Peru!!
We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually currently fallen in love with this nation and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has actually already provided in incredible 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 family for a month while we attend language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to discover Spanish, while Julian will find out Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with people about relocating to another nation, we discovered that nearly everybody wondered to know exactly HOW we were going to pack for our move. So prior to we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd show y' all 10 hacks that we found in packing to move overseas ... Delight in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packaging is frustrating (I will be saying that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you are like most of us, you have a lot of stuff, so leaving all of it for the last minute will worry you out more. You may forget things or perhaps take excessive. Julian and I began about 3 months ahead of time by eliminating clothing and things we didn't need occasionally (so many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise began purchasing trunks early since they can get quite pricey so spreading that out helps. I also began posting advertisements early on Facebook to offer our furniture and from that we had good friends buy a great deal of our things in advance to choose it up when we were all set to move. Likewise making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but is available in useful when handling customizeds.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is really for the memories. The apartment or condo we moved out was our very first house together and it suggested a lot to us. So the photos are simply for us to remember and perhaps show our future household one day, to understand where all of it started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have actually been a supporter for loading cubes because my trip to El Salvador a year earlier. On that trip, I could only take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to state we purchased as many of them as we might and were able to get most of my clothes into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are terrific, loading all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limitation was EXTREMELY STRESSFUL and caused me lots of breakdowns haha (simply being sincere).
4. Find Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a lot of other people where informing us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that essential ... at first. But a couple of months prior to leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to pack we connected to another doctor called Ari, who is really currently residing in the apartment we will be moving into. She has genuinely been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 3 times a week up until we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the cooking area shelves to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packaging Party!
Invite someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem informing you "you do not require that", and who can manage you being stressed. Our pal Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came over (ON HER DAY OFF) and invested the entire day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we need to bring, contribute, or store. She helped us load whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 pounds. 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 need to release 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 given that college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's help Julian is now devoid of his pen addiction. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was probably my favorite part about moving. Like I said previously, we took numerous trips to Goodwill, however we likewise allowed our good friends to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they wanted. It was really cool to know that our things were entering into the houses of people we like!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other people that have actually done what we are doing like Julian's moms and dads, everyone said the very same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bedding was very essential, likewise great knives, a couple of framed images of our friends and family, and PEANUT BUTTER (obviously peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we made sure to pack!
9. Relax and Take A 2nd ... Numerous Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Circumstance!!
As I have actually discussed, packing is overwhelming. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a second to yell, recognize the turmoil around you, and then just laugh because it is nuts. What you are trying to do is insane: your home has actually never looked worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and taking a shower without a shower curtain while attempting not to get too much water on the floor, eating out of the same bowl for every single meal, and only have one great t-shirt considering that all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your typical life and its frustrating, however if you take a look at a distance, its also funny, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your home, go check out the city you are leaving, meet up with buddies, and enjoy yourself, that truly assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its actually fun to recall now on how much Julian and I carried out in such little time. Here are some images of our last few months in Houston!
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