Hola from Peru!!
We have actually remained in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen in love with this nation and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has currently provided in amazing ways. We will be in Lima for the next couple of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be living with a Peruvian family for a month while we participate in language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will find out Quechua, the indigenous language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to relocate to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another country, we found that almost everybody wondered to know precisely 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 show y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Take pleasure in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packing is frustrating (I will be saying that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you are like the majority of us, you have a great deal of things, so leaving everything for the eleventh hour will stress you out more. You may forget things or possibly take too much. Julian and I began about 3 months in advance by eliminating clothes and things we didn't need occasionally (numerous trips to Goodwill). And we likewise started purchasing trunks early due to the fact that they can get quite expensive so spreading out that out helps. I likewise began posting ads early on Facebook to sell our furniture and from that we had friends purchase a lot of our things in advance to choose it up when we were prepared to move. Likewise making a list of whatever that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do however can be found in helpful when dealing with custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is really for the memories. The apartment we moved out was our first house together and it suggested a lot to us. So the pictures are just for us to keep in mind and perhaps show our future family one day, to understand where everything started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have actually been an advocate for loading cubes since my journey to El Salvador a year ago. On that trip, I could just take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to state we bought as much of them as we could and were able to get most of my clothes into one suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are fantastic, loading all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not discuss the 50-lb limit was INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT and caused me many breakdowns haha (simply being sincere).
4. Find Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask Them ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a lot of other individuals where telling us to do and truthfully we didn't think it was that important ... in the beginning. But a few months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we connected to another doctor called Ari, who is really currently living in the apartment we will be moving into. She has really been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week till we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the kitchen area racks to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Throw a Packaging Party!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem informing you "you don't need that", and who can manage you being stressed. Our buddy Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and invested the entire day, going through our things, making the calls we couldn't make on what we should bring, donate, or shop. She helped us load everything in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Find Out 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 LOT of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this insane aspect of keeping EVERY pen he owned since college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I said earlier, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, however we likewise enabled our friends to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they wanted. It was truly cool to know that our things were entering into the houses of people we love!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other people that have actually done what we are simulating Julian's parents, everybody said the same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bedding was extremely crucial, also excellent knives, a couple of framed pictures of our loved ones, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we ensured to load!
9. Chill Out and Take A 2nd ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Circumstance!!
As I have actually discussed, packing is frustrating. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a second to yell, recognize the chaos around you, and after that simply laugh due to the fact that it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your home has never looked even worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and showering without a shower drape while trying not to get excessive water on the flooring, eating out of the exact same bowl for every meal, and only have one great t-shirt given that all the rest of your clothes are loaded. You're not living your typical life and its frustrating, but if you take a look at a distance, its likewise amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Also leave your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with pals, and enjoy yourself, that actually helped us when packing was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its really fun to look back now on just 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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