Hola from Peru!!
We have actually been in Peru for 4 days now and we have actually already fallen in love with this country and the people. Your prayers are felt and God has currently provided in fantastic 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 go to language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will learn Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with people about transferring to another nation, we discovered that practically everyone 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 found in packing to move overseas ... Delight in!
1. Start Packaging 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 the majority of us, you have a great deal of things, so leaving all of it for the eleventh hour will stress you out more. You may forget things or perhaps take excessive. Julian and I began about 3 months beforehand by eliminating clothes and things we didn't need here and there (many journeys to Goodwill). And we also started purchasing trunks early since they can get quite pricey so spreading that out assists. I also began publishing advertisements early on Facebook to offer our furnishings and from that we had good friends buy a lot of our things in advance to pick it up when we were prepared to move. Likewise making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do but can be found in convenient when handling customs.
2. Take Pictures of Your House
This is really for the memories. The apartment or condo we vacated was our first house together and it indicated a lot to us. So the photos are simply for us to bear in mind and maybe show our future household one day, to understand where all of it began.
3. Loading Cubes!!
I have actually been a supporter for loading cubes because my journey 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 clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as a number of them as we could and had the ability to get the majority of my clothing into one luggage. I won't lie, though packing cubes are fantastic, packing all my clothes and trying to make them all fit and not discuss the 50-lb limit was INCREDIBLY STRESSFUL and triggered me many breakdowns haha (simply being sincere).
4. Find Somebody Who Lives/Has Lived Where You Are Going & Inquire ANY & ALL Questions.
This is something a great deal of other individuals where informing us to do and truthfully we didn't believe it was that crucial ... in the beginning. But a few months before leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not knowing what to load we reached out to another physician named Ari, who is actually presently residing in the home we will be moving into. She has genuinely been a God-send. I emailed Ari at least 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. Toss a Packing Celebration!
Welcome 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 good friend 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 could not make on what we need 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 everything with you and will need to release a lot ... A Great Deal Of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy aspect of keeping EVERY pen he owned considering that college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's help 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 stated earlier, we took numerous journeys to Goodwill, but we likewise enabled our friends 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 people we like!!
8. Bring Things that You Will Miss!
In talking with Ari and other people that have actually done what we are doing like Julian's moms and dads, everyone stated the exact same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bed linen was very important, also good knives, a couple of framed images of our loved ones, 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 ... Numerous Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Scenario!!
As I have actually mentioned, packaging is frustrating. At any quality it can truthfully make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a 2nd to shriek, recognize the mayhem around you, and then just laugh because it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your house has actually never looked worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and taking a shower without a shower drape while attempting not to get excessive water on the flooring, eating in restaurants of the exact same bowl for each meal, and just have one nice shirt since all the rest of your clothes are loaded. You're not living your regular life and its overwhelming, but if you take a look at a range, its likewise hilarious, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Also leave your house, go explore the city you are leaving, meet pals, and enjoy yourself, that actually helped us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its truly enjoyable to recall now on just how much Julian and I carried out in such little time. Here are some images of our last couple of months in Houston!
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