Hola from Peru!!
We have remained 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 already provided in amazing ways. We will remain in Lima for the next number of days, then we head to Cusco where we will be coping with a Peruvian family for a month while we go to language school. At language school I, Devyn, will be continuing to find out Spanish, while Julian will find out Quechua, the native language.
Anyways, as we were preparing to transfer to Peru and talking with individuals about transferring to another country, we discovered that nearly everybody was curious to understand precisely HOW we were going to pack for our relocation. So before we dove into how things are going here in Peru, we believed we 'd share with y' all 10 hacks that we found in packaging to move overseas ... Delight in!
1. Start Packing EARLY & Do it in Stages.
Packaging 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 all of it for the last minute will stress you out more. You may forget things or perhaps take excessive. Julian and I began about 3 months ahead of time by getting rid of clothes and things we didn't need occasionally (so many trips to Goodwill). And we likewise started purchasing trunks early due to the fact that they can get pretty costly so spreading out that out assists. I likewise started posting ads early on Facebook to sell our furniture and from that we had good friends buy a great deal of our things in advance to choose it up when we were ready to move. Also making a list of everything that remains in each trunk is something Julian and I forgot to do however can be found in useful when dealing with custom-mades.
2. Take Pictures of Your Home
This is truly for the memories. The apartment we vacated was our very first home together and it suggested a lot to us. So the pictures are simply for us to keep in mind and possibly reveal our future household one day, to understand where all of it started.
3. Packing Cubes!!
I have actually been an advocate for loading cubes considering that my journey to El Salvador a year earlier. On that journey, I might just take a continue with me and had the ability to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and toiletries!!! Needless to say we purchased as a lot of them as we could and had the ability to get most of my clothes into one travel suitcase. I won't lie, though packing cubes are excellent, packing all my clothes and attempting to make them all fit and not go over the 50-lb limit was INCREDIBLY STRESSFUL and caused 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 telling us to do and honestly we didn't believe it was that important ... at first. But a couple of months before leaving and ending up being overwhelmed by not understanding what to load we connected to another doctor called Ari, who is actually currently living in the house we will be moving into. She has genuinely been a God-send. I emailed Ari a minimum of 3 times a week up until we moved here. I asked her anything to whatever: from the size of the cooking area racks to whether we required to bring rain boots.
5. Toss a Packaging Party!
Invite somebody over who is a master at Tetris, who has no issue informing you "you do not require that", and who can handle you being stressed. Our buddy Sandra was another God-send for us !! She came over (ON HER DAY OFF) and spent the whole day, going through our stuff, making the calls we couldn't make on what we need to bring, donate, or shop. She helped us load everything 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 everything with you and will have to let go of a lot ... A Great Deal Of your things. For me it was shoes, for Julian ... he had this crazy thing about keeping EVERY pen he owned because college. Hahha. Why idk, however with Sandra's assistance Julian is now free from his pen addiction. Hahah!
7. Bless Others with Your Stuff!
This was probably my favorite part about moving. Like I stated previously, we took numerous trips to Goodwill, however we likewise enabled our pals to go through all of our things and let them take whatever they wanted. It was really cool to know that our things were going into the houses 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, everybody said the same thing, BRING The Important Things THAT YOU WILL MISS. For us, excellent bed linen was very important, likewise great knives, a few framed pictures of our loved ones, and PEANUT BUTTER (apparently peanut butter is not a thing in other countries)! So that's what we ensured to load!
9. Relax and Take A Second ... Lots Of Seconds ... to Laugh at Your Situation!!
As I have 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 chaos around you, and then just laugh due to the fact that it is nuts. What you are trying to do is crazy: your house has actually never ever looked 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 out of the exact same bowl for every meal, and only have one good shirt because all the rest of your clothes are packed. You're not living your normal life and its overwhelming, but if you take a look at a distance, its also amusing, so LAUGH! hahhaha! Also leave your home, go check out the city you are leaving, meet friends, and enjoy yourself, that truly helped us when packing was dragging us down!
10. Document the experience!
Its actually enjoyable to recall now on just 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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