Hola from Peru!!
We have been in Peru for 4 days now and we've currently fallen in love with this country and individuals. Your prayers are felt and God has actually already supplied 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 go to language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to discover Spanish, while Julian will discover Quechua, the indigenous language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to move to Peru and talking with individuals about relocating to another country, we found that almost everybody was curious to understand precisely HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So prior to we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd show y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Delight in!
1. Start Packaging EARLY & Do it in Phases.
Packing is frustrating (I will be stating that a lot in this blog haha) and if you are like the majority of us, you have a great deal of things, so leaving it all for the last minute will stress you out more. You may forget things or possibly take excessive. Julian and I began about 3 months ahead of time by getting rid of clothes and things we didn't require occasionally (many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise started purchasing trunks early since they can get pretty pricey so spreading out that out assists. I also started publishing advertisements early on Facebook to sell our furnishings and from that we had pals buy a lot of our things in advance to select 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 however comes in useful when handling custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is truly for the memories. The home we moved out was our very first home together and it indicated a lot to us. So the pictures are simply for us to keep in mind and maybe reveal our future household one day, to understand where everything began.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have been a supporter for loading cubes given that my trip to El Salvador a year earlier. On that journey, I could only take a carry on with me and was able to fit 2 weeks worth of clothing and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as many of them as we might and had the ability to get most of my clothes into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though loading cubes are terrific, loading all my clothing and trying to make them all fit and not review the 50-lb limit was EXTREMELY DEMANDING and triggered me many breakdowns haha (just being honest).
4. Find Somebody 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 essential ... in the beginning. However a few months before leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to pack we connected to another physician called Ari, who is really currently living in the apartment we will be moving into. She has truly 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 area racks to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Throw a Packaging Celebration!
Welcome someone over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you do not require that", and who can manage you being stressed out. Our good friend Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came by (ON HER DAY OFF) and invested the whole day, going through our stuff, making the calls we couldn't make on what we need to bring, contribute, or store. She helped us pack whatever in our trunks and helped make it all fit without being over 50 lbs. THANK YOU SANDRA!!!
6. Find Out to Let Go ...
At the end of the day you are moving overseas and can not take whatever with you and will need to let go of a lot ... A LOT of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy thing about keeping EVERY pen he owned considering that college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's aid Julian is now free from his pen dependency. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Things!
This was most likely my preferred part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took many trips to Goodwill, however we also enabled our pals to go through all of our stuff and let them take whatever they desired. It was actually cool to know that our things were going into the houses of people we love!!
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 stated the exact same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, great bed linen was very important, likewise good knives, a couple of framed photos of our friends and family, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other nations)! So that's what we made certain to pack!
9. Relax and Take A Second ... Many Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Scenario!!
As I have discussed, packing is frustrating. At any quality it can honestly make or break you. Don't let it break you. Take a second to scream, recognize the turmoil around you, and after that just laugh since it is nuts. What you are attempting to do is crazy: your home has actually never looked even worse, you are sleeping on a floor, and showering without a shower drape while trying not to get too much water on the floor, eating in restaurants of the exact same bowl for every meal, and only have one nice shirt because all the rest of your clothing are packed. You're not living your normal life and its overwhelming, however if you look at a distance, its also hilarious, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Likewise get out of your home, go explore the city you are leaving, meet up with buddies, and enjoy yourself, that really assisted us when packaging was dragging us down!
10. File the experience!
Its truly fun to recall now on just how much Julian and I performed in such little time. Here are some photos of our last few months in Houston!
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