Hola from Peru!!
We have remained in Peru for 4 days now and we've currently fallen in love with this country and the people. Your prayers are felt and God has currently offered in amazing methods. We will remain 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 find out Spanish, while Julian will discover Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about transferring to another country, we discovered that practically everybody was curious to understand exactly HOW we were going to load for our move. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd show y' all 10 hacks that we discovered in packing to move overseas ... Enjoy!
1. Start Packaging 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 lot of stuff, 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 ahead of time by eliminating clothes and things we didn't require occasionally (many journeys to Goodwill). And we also began purchasing trunks early due to the fact that they can get pretty pricey so spreading that out helps. I also began posting ads early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had buddies buy a lot of our stuff in advance to select it up when we were prepared to move. Likewise making a list of everything that is in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but can be found in handy when handling custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is really for the memories. The apartment or condo we moved out was our first home together and it meant a lot to us. So the photos are just for us to remember and possibly reveal our future household one day, to know where all of it started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have been a supporter for loading cubes considering that my trip to El Salvador a year ago. On that journey, 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 a number of them as we might and were able to get the majority of my clothing into one luggage. I will not lie, though packing cubes are terrific, loading all my clothes and trying to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limit was EXTREMELY STRESSFUL and caused me many breakdowns haha (simply being honest).
4. Find Someone Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Ask Them ANY & ALL Concerns.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where telling us to do and truthfully we didn't think it was that crucial ... at first. However a few months before leaving and becoming overwhelmed by not knowing what to load we reached out to another physician called Ari, who is in fact currently residing in the apartment we will be moving into. She has actually genuinely been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 3 times a week until we moved here. I asked her anything to everything: from the size of the cooking area shelves to whether we needed to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packing Celebration!
Welcome someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no problem telling you "you don't require that", and who can manage you being stressed out. Our friend Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and spent the entire day, going through our stuff, making the calls we could not make on what we must bring, donate, or shop. She helped us pack whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 pounds. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Discover 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 given that college. Hahha. Why idk, but with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen addiction. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was most likely my favorite part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took lots of trips to Goodwill, however we also permitted our friends to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they desired. It was truly cool to know that our things were entering 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 moms and dads, everybody said the very same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bedding was extremely essential, likewise excellent knives, a few framed pictures of our family and friends, and PEANUT BUTTER (obviously peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we made certain to pack!
9. Chill Out and Take A Second ... Many Seconds ... to Make Fun Of Your Situation!!
As I have actually pointed out, packaging is frustrating. At any caliber it can honestly make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a 2nd to shout, recognize the mayhem around you, and then just laugh since it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is insane: your home has never looked worse, you are sleeping on a flooring, and showering without a shower curtain while attempting not to get excessive water on the floor, eating out of the very same bowl for each meal, and just have one nice shirt considering that all the rest of your clothing are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its overwhelming, but 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 packaging was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its actually enjoyable to look back now on how much Julian and I did in such little time. Here are some photos of our last few months in Houston!
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