Hola from Peru!!
We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen in love with this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has already supplied in fantastic methods. We will remain in Lima for the next couple of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be dealing with a Peruvian family for a month while we go to language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another nation, we found that nearly everybody wondered to understand precisely HOW we were going to load 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 discovered in packaging to move overseas ... Take pleasure in!
1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packaging is overwhelming (I will be saying that a lot in this blog haha) and if you resemble most of us, you have a great deal of things, so leaving it all for the eleventh hour will worry you out more. You may forget things or potentially take too much. Julian and I started about 3 months in advance by eliminating clothes and things we didn't require occasionally (many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise started buying trunks early due to the fact that they can get quite costly so spreading that out assists. I also started posting ads early on Facebook to sell our furnishings and from that we had good friends purchase a great deal of our things in advance to select it up when we were prepared to move. Also making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but is available in helpful when handling custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is really for the memories. The house we vacated was our first home together and it indicated a lot to us. So the images are just for us to remember and possibly reveal our future family one day, to know where it all started.
3. Loading Cubes!!
I have actually been a supporter for packing cubes given that my trip to El Salvador a year back. On that trip, I might only take a continue with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as much of them as we could and were able to get the majority of my clothing into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are great, loading all my clothing and attempting to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limitation was EXCEPTIONALLY STRESSFUL and caused me numerous breakdowns haha (simply being truthful).
4. Find Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Inquire ANY & ALL Concerns.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where telling us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that important ... at first. But a couple of months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to pack we connected to another doctor named Ari, who is actually presently living in the home 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 cooking area shelves to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packaging Party!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem informing you "you don't require that", and who can handle you being stressed. Our friend 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 couldn't make on what we should bring, donate, or store. She helped us pack 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 everything with you and will have to let go of a lot ... A LOT of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy aspect of keeping EVERY pen he owned considering that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's help 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 stated earlier, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, but we likewise permitted our buddies 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 homes of individuals we enjoy!!
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 stated the very same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bedding was really important, also good knives, a few framed pictures of our loved ones, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we ensured to pack!
9. Relax and Take A Second ... Many Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Situation!!
As I have actually discussed, packing is overwhelming. At any caliber it can truthfully make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a second to scream, recognize the turmoil around you, and then just laugh because it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your home has actually never looked even worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and taking a shower without a shower curtain while attempting not to get excessive water on the floor, eating in restaurants of the very same bowl for each meal, and just have one great shirt considering that all the rest of your clothes are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its frustrating, but if you look at a range, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your house, go explore the city you are leaving, meet pals, and enjoy yourself, that actually helped us when packing was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its really fun to recall now on just how much Julian and I carried out in such little time. Here are some photos of our last couple of months in Houston!
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