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 already provided in fantastic methods. We will remain in Lima for the next couple of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be coping with a Peruvian household for a month while we go to 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 individuals about transferring to another nation, we discovered that almost everyone wondered to understand precisely HOW we were going to load 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 packing to move overseas ... Take pleasure in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packaging is frustrating (I will be stating that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you resemble the majority of us, you have a lot of things, so leaving everything for the last minute will stress you out more. You might forget things or perhaps take too much. Julian and I started about 3 months beforehand by getting rid of clothes and things we didn't need here and there (numerous trips to Goodwill). And we also started purchasing trunks early due to the fact that they can get quite costly so spreading that out helps. I also started publishing ads early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had friends buy a lot of our stuff in advance to choose it up when we were all set to move. Also making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but comes in handy when handling customizeds.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is truly for the memories. The apartment or condo we moved out was our very first home together and it meant a lot to us. So the photos are just for us to keep in mind and possibly reveal 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 back. On that trip, I might only take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as a number of them as we might and were able to get the majority of my clothing into one suitcase. I will not lie, though loading cubes are fantastic, packing all my clothing and attempting to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limit was VERY DIFFICULT and caused me numerous breakdowns haha (simply being honest).
4. Discover Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and truthfully we didn't believe it was that important ... initially. But a couple of months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to load we reached out to another physician named Ari, who is really presently living in the house 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 everything: from the size of the kitchen area racks to whether we needed to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packing Party!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem telling you "you do not need that", and who can manage you being stressed. Our friend 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 couldn't make on what we should bring, contribute, or store. She helped us pack everything in our trunks and assisted 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 everything with you and will need to let go of a lot ... A LOT of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this insane feature of keeping EVERY pen he owned given that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Stuff!
This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I said earlier, we took many trips to Goodwill, but we also allowed our friends to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they wanted. It was truly neat to know that our things were going 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 simulating Julian's moms and dads, everyone said the exact same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bed linen was extremely essential, likewise great knives, a few framed pictures of our family and friends, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we made certain to pack!
9. Chill Out and Take A Second ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Circumstance!!
As I have discussed, packaging is overwhelming. At any caliber it can honestly make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a 2nd to scream, recognize the chaos around you, and after that simply laugh since it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your house has actually never ever looked worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and taking a shower without a shower drape while trying not to get excessive water on the floor, eating out of the very same bowl for every single meal, and just have one nice t-shirt considering that all the rest of your clothes are packed. You're not living your typical life and its frustrating, but if you look at a range, its also humorous, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your house, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with buddies, and enjoy yourself, that really assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its truly fun to look back now on just how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some photos of our last few months in Houston!
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