Hola from Peru!!
We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen for this country and the people. 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 living with a Peruvian household for a month while we participate in language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to discover Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to relocate to Peru and talking with individuals about moving to another nation, we discovered that nearly everybody wondered to know exactly HOW we were going to pack for our move. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we thought we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we discovered in packing to move overseas ... Delight in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packing is overwhelming (I will be saying that a lot in this blog site haha) and if you are like the majority of us, you have a lot of things, so leaving it all for the eleventh hour will stress you out more. You may forget things or potentially take excessive. Julian and I started about 3 months in advance by getting rid of clothing and things we didn't need occasionally (many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise began buying trunks early because they can get pretty costly so spreading out that out assists. I likewise began publishing ads early on Facebook to sell our furniture and from that we had good friends purchase a lot of our stuff in advance to pick it up when we were prepared to move. Also making a list of whatever that is in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but can be found in helpful when handling custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is truly for the memories. The apartment we moved out was our first home together and it implied a lot to us. So the photos are just for us to bear in mind and perhaps show our future family one day, to know where everything started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have been an advocate for loading cubes considering that my trip to El Salvador a year ago. On that journey, I might only take a carry on with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we bought as a number of them as we might and had the ability to get the majority of my clothing into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though packing cubes are great, loading all my clothing and trying to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limit was VERY STRESSFUL and triggered me many breakdowns haha (just being honest).
4. Discover Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask Them ANY & ALL Concerns.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that important ... in the beginning. But a couple of months before leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not knowing what to pack we reached out to another medical professional named Ari, who is actually presently residing in the apartment or condo we will be moving into. She has actually really been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week until we moved here. I asked her anything to everything: from the size of the kitchen shelves to whether we needed to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packaging Celebration!
Invite someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you don't require 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 invested the entire day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we ought to bring, donate, or store. She assisted 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 need to release a lot ... A LOT of your stuff. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy feature of keeping EVERY pen he owned given that college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's assistance Julian is now free from his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Stuff!
This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I said earlier, we took many trips to Goodwill, but we also permitted our buddies to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they desired. It was truly cool to understand that our things were entering into the homes of individuals we like!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other people that have actually done what we are simulating Julian's moms and dads, everybody said the same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bed linen was extremely important, also good knives, a few framed pictures of our family and friends, and PEANUT BUTTER (obviously peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we made certain to pack!
9. Chill Out and Take A Second ... Numerous Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Situation!!
As I have discussed, packing is overwhelming. At any caliber it can truthfully make or break you. Do not let it break you. Take a 2nd to scream, acknowledge the chaos around you, and then just laugh because it is nuts. What you are trying to do is insane: your house has never ever looked even worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and taking a shower without a shower curtain while attempting not to get too much water on the flooring, eating out of the exact same bowl for each meal, and just have one great t-shirt because all the rest of your clothes are loaded. You're not living your typical life and its frustrating, however if you look at a range, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Also leave your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with friends, and enjoy yourself, that truly helped us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its actually fun to look back now on just how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some pictures of our last few months in Houston!
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