Hola from Peru!!
We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen in love with this nation and the people. Your prayers are felt and God has actually already provided in fantastic ways. We will be in Lima for the next number of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be dealing 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 learn Quechua, the indigenous language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with people about transferring to another country, we discovered that nearly everybody was curious to know precisely HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So prior to we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Delight 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 are like most of us, you have a lot of stuff, so leaving it all for the last minute will stress you out more. You may forget things or potentially take excessive. Julian and I started about 3 months ahead of time by eliminating clothing and things we didn't require occasionally (a lot of journeys to Goodwill). And we likewise started purchasing trunks early due to the fact that they can get pretty expensive so spreading that out assists. I likewise started posting ads early on Facebook to sell our furnishings and from that we had buddies buy a great deal of our stuff 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 however is available in useful when handling customizeds.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is truly for the memories. The apartment we vacated was our very first house together and it suggested a lot to us. So the images are just for us to remember and perhaps reveal our future household one day, to understand where all of it started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have been an advocate for loading cubes considering that my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. On that trip, I might just take a carry on with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as a lot of them as we might and were able to get most of my clothes into one travel suitcase. I will not lie, though packing cubes are great, packing all my clothing and attempting to make them all fit and not discuss the 50-lb limit was EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT and triggered me many breakdowns haha (just being sincere).
4. Discover Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a great deal of other people where informing us to do and honestly we didn't think it was that crucial ... at first. However a few months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we reached out to another medical professional named Ari, who is actually currently living 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 up until 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 Packaging Party!
Welcome someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you do not require that", and who can handle you being stressed out. Our friend 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 could not make on what we need to bring, contribute, or store. She assisted us load whatever 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 need 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, but with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen addiction. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was probably my favorite part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took lots of journeys to Goodwill, however we also enabled our pals to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they desired. It was truly cool to know that our things were going into the houses of individuals we love!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other individuals that have done what we are doing like Julian's parents, everyone said the exact same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, good bed linen was really crucial, likewise 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 ensured to load!
9. Relax and Take A 2nd ... Numerous Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Circumstance!!
As I have actually pointed out, packaging is frustrating. At any caliber it can honestly make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a second to shout, recognize the mayhem around you, and after that simply laugh since it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is insane: your house has never ever looked even worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and taking a shower 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 just have one nice shirt considering that all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its frustrating, however if you look at a distance, its likewise funny, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with friends, and enjoy yourself, that really helped us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its truly enjoyable to recall now on how much Julian and I performed in such little time. Here are some pictures of our last few months in Houston!
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