Hola from Peru!!
We have remained in Peru for 4 days now and we've currently fallen in love with this nation and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has currently offered in incredible ways. We will be 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 learn Spanish, while Julian will find out Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to transfer to Peru and talking with people about relocating to another country, we discovered that practically everybody was curious to know exactly HOW we were going to load for our move. So prior to we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we thought we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we discovered in packaging to move overseas ... Enjoy!
1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Phases.
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 great deal of things, so leaving everything for the eleventh hour will stress you out more. You might forget things or perhaps take excessive. Julian and I started about 3 months beforehand by eliminating clothes and things we didn't require occasionally (many journeys to Goodwill). And we also started buying trunks early since they can get pretty pricey so spreading out that out assists. I likewise started publishing ads early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had buddies buy a great deal of our things in advance to pick it up when we were all set to move. Likewise making a list of whatever that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but is available in useful when dealing with customizeds.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is actually for the memories. The house we moved out was our first home together and it indicated a lot to us. So the images are just for us to remember and possibly show our future family one day, to know where it all started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have actually been an advocate for packing cubes considering that my trip to El Salvador a year earlier. On that trip, I could only take a carry on with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to state we bought as much of them as we might and had the ability to get the majority of my clothing into one suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are terrific, loading all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not discuss the 50-lb limitation was EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT and caused me numerous breakdowns haha (just being honest).
4. Find Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask Them ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and truthfully we didn't think it was that essential ... in the beginning. But a few months prior to leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to load we reached out to another medical professional named Ari, who is in fact currently living in the apartment or condo we will be moving into. She has actually truly been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 3 times a week until we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the kitchen area racks 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 telling you "you don't need that", and who can handle you being stressed out. Our buddy 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, contribute, or store. She helped us load whatever 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 have to release a lot ... A Great Deal Of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy feature of keeping EVERY pen he owned since college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's assistance Julian is now free from his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was most likely my favorite part about moving. Like I said previously, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, but we likewise enabled our buddies to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they desired. It was actually neat 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 individuals that have done what we are simulating Julian's moms and dads, everybody said the same thing, BRING THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bedding was very essential, likewise great knives, a couple of 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 sure to load!
9. Chill Out and Take A 2nd ... Many Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Scenario!!
As I have actually pointed out, packing is overwhelming. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a second 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 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 floor, eating in restaurants of the very same bowl for each meal, and only have one great t-shirt because all the rest of your clothing are packed. You're not living your typical life and its frustrating, however if you take a look at a distance, its also humorous, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with good friends, and enjoy yourself, that really assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its really fun to look back now on 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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