Hola from Peru!!
We have been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen for this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has already provided in amazing ways. We will remain 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 learn Spanish, while Julian will find out Quechua, the indigenous language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to relocate to Peru and talking with people about moving to another country, we discovered that nearly everyone wondered to know 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 share with y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Take pleasure in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packaging is overwhelming (I will be stating 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 all of it for the eleventh hour will worry you out more. You might forget things or perhaps take excessive. Julian and I began about 3 months ahead of time by eliminating clothes and things we didn't need occasionally (so many journeys to Goodwill). And we likewise started buying trunks early since they can get pretty costly so spreading that out helps. I also started posting advertisements early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had pals purchase a lot of our stuff in advance to pick it up when we were ready to move. Also making a list of everything that is in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but is available in convenient when handling custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your House
This is truly for the memories. The house we moved out was our very first house together and it suggested a lot to us. So the images are simply for us to remember and possibly reveal our future household one day, to know where it all began.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have actually been an advocate for loading cubes since my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. On that trip, I might just take a continue with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as a lot of them as we might and were able to get the majority of my clothing into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are fantastic, loading all my clothing and trying to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limitation was EXTREMELY DIFFICULT and caused me lots of breakdowns haha (simply being truthful).
4. Discover Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a lot of other people where informing us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that important ... at first. But a few months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not knowing what to load we connected to another medical professional named Ari, who is really presently living in the apartment or condo we will be moving into. She has truly been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 3 times a week up until we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the cooking area shelves to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Throw a Packaging Celebration!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing 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 spent the whole day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we should bring, contribute, or shop. She helped us pack whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Discover to Let Go ...
At the end of the day you are moving overseas and can not take everything with you and will have to release a lot ... A Great Deal Of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy feature of keeping EVERY pen he owned given that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's assistance Julian is now free from his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was probably my favorite part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took numerous trips to Goodwill, however we likewise allowed our good friends to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they desired. It was really cool to know that our things were going into the homes of people we like!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other individuals that have actually done what we are doing like Julian's parents, everyone said the very same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bedding was really important, likewise good knives, a few 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 pack!
9. Chill Out and Take A Second ... Numerous Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Situation!!
As I have discussed, packing is overwhelming. At any caliber it can truthfully make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a 2nd to shriek, recognize the turmoil around you, and after that just laugh since it is nuts. What you are trying to do is crazy: your home has actually never ever looked even worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and taking a shower without a shower drape while trying not to get too much water on the flooring, eating out of the same bowl for each meal, and only have one nice t-shirt given that all the rest of your clothes are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its overwhelming, however if you look at a distance, its also hilarious, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise leave your house, go check out the city you are leaving, meet friends, and enjoy yourself, that really assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its actually enjoyable to look back now on just how much Julian and I carried out in such little time. Here are some photos of our last few months in Houston!
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