Hola from Peru!!
We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we've currently fallen for this nation and the people. Your prayers are felt and God has actually currently offered in fantastic ways. 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 discover Spanish, while Julian will discover Quechua, the indigenous language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another country, we discovered that practically everybody was curious to know exactly HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we thought we 'd show y' all 10 hacks that we found in packing to move overseas ... Delight in!
1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Phases.
Packaging is overwhelming (I will be saying that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you resemble the majority of us, you have a great deal of stuff, so leaving it all for the last minute will stress 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 (many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise began purchasing trunks early because they can get pretty expensive so spreading out that out assists. I also began posting advertisements early on Facebook to sell our furnishings and from that we had buddies purchase a great deal of our stuff in advance to select it up when we were ready to move. Likewise making a list of whatever that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but comes in helpful when handling customs.
2. Take Pictures of Your House
This is truly for the memories. The apartment or condo we moved out was our first home together and it implied a lot to us. So the images are simply for us to remember and possibly reveal our future household one day, to understand where everything started.
3. Loading Cubes!!
I have actually been a supporter for packing cubes since my journey to El Salvador a year back. On that journey, I could only take a carry on with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as much of them as we might and were able to get most of my clothes into one luggage. I won't lie, though packing cubes are great, packing all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limitation was INCREDIBLY DEMANDING and caused me many breakdowns haha (simply being sincere).
4. Find Someone 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 honestly we didn't believe it was that crucial ... at first. However a couple of months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we reached out to another doctor named Ari, who is in fact currently living in the home 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 racks to whether we needed to bring rain boots.
5. Throw a Packaging Celebration!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem telling you "you do not require that", and who can handle you being stressed out. Our pal Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came over (ON HER DAY OFF) and invested the whole day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we ought to bring, contribute, or store. She assisted us load everything 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 LOT of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this insane feature of keeping EVERY pen he owned because college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's aid 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 earlier, we took numerous journeys to Goodwill, however we likewise permitted our friends to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they desired. It was truly cool to know that our things were entering into the homes of individuals we enjoy!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other people that have done what we are simulating Julian's moms and dads, everybody stated the very same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bed linen was very essential, likewise excellent knives, a few framed photos of our friends and family, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we made sure to load!
9. Relax and Take A 2nd ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Circumstance!!
As I have mentioned, packaging is frustrating. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a 2nd to yell, acknowledge the turmoil 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 floor, and taking a shower without a shower curtain while attempting not to get too much water on the flooring, eating in restaurants of the same bowl for every single meal, and only have one great shirt since all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your normal life and its frustrating, however if you look at a distance, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your house, go check out the city you are leaving, meet buddies, and enjoy yourself, that actually helped us when packing was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its truly enjoyable to recall now on just how much Julian and I performed in such little time. Here are some pictures of our last couple of months in Houston!
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