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Minerves on the Move
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If you are family thinking about moving abroad let us give you a glimpse of what could be! July 2022 we took the jump and moved our family of 5 to San Pedro Sula Honduras. After, being in Honduras we moved to the beautiful Dominican Republic! August 2024 takes us on our next adventure...
We hear stories of people selling their homes, leaving their 6 figure jobs, and traveling the world....not our story! We were 2 struggling teachers who were tired of the rise and grind mentality! We were tired of work and no play. So with debt, a plan, and a budget we made the jump now!
So here we are presently. A Black American family living abroad, paying down our bills, and still teaching. We are loud, funny, and strange. We argue, we cry, we make up. We are not in any way perfect. And finally life...welp, we're loving every single moment.
We hear stories of people selling their homes, leaving their 6 figure jobs, and traveling the world....not our story! We were 2 struggling teachers who were tired of the rise and grind mentality! We were tired of work and no play. So with debt, a plan, and a budget we made the jump now!
So here we are presently. A Black American family living abroad, paying down our bills, and still teaching. We are loud, funny, and strange. We argue, we cry, we make up. We are not in any way perfect. And finally life...welp, we're loving every single moment.
This is How Our Family Packs After Moving to 3 Countries l How and What To Pack for Living Abroad
In this video we talk about the 10 things we've learned since moving abroad with children to 3 different countries. We will cover how to plan beforehand, what to pack, and tips that we missed in our last video about moving abroad with children. We will also share what we are doing real time in a vlog like style because we are in the middle of moving to Ethiopia!
These tips will apply if you are a family with children BUT will also help for single people. So if you are seriously considering moving abroad or are just getting your feet wet stick around for the entire video because we're going to give you the real..in this reel (bad dad joke) 😂
We are an Black American couple who left their teaching jobs back in the states for a life overseas to pursue being international school teachers (so not just teaching english). At the time of this video we are currently in the United States transitioning to Africa for the first time!
#travelingfamily #livingabroad #expats #children #blaxit #moving #africa #ethiopia
Contents of This Video
0:00 Intro
0:38 Create a Packing Schedule
1:27 Decide on a Packing Order
3:33 Consider Important Events
5:21 Extra bags VS Extra Weight
5:55 Reusable vins VS Bags
6:22 At least one of one of these!
7:21 ...and one of these!!
9:19 Bring new items AND FOOD!
10:39 What I forgot in our last video
12:13 The MOST Important
These tips will apply if you are a family with children BUT will also help for single people. So if you are seriously considering moving abroad or are just getting your feet wet stick around for the entire video because we're going to give you the real..in this reel (bad dad joke) 😂
We are an Black American couple who left their teaching jobs back in the states for a life overseas to pursue being international school teachers (so not just teaching english). At the time of this video we are currently in the United States transitioning to Africa for the first time!
#travelingfamily #livingabroad #expats #children #blaxit #moving #africa #ethiopia
Contents of This Video
0:00 Intro
0:38 Create a Packing Schedule
1:27 Decide on a Packing Order
3:33 Consider Important Events
5:21 Extra bags VS Extra Weight
5:55 Reusable vins VS Bags
6:22 At least one of one of these!
7:21 ...and one of these!!
9:19 Bring new items AND FOOD!
10:39 What I forgot in our last video
12:13 The MOST Important
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Welcome Honduras ❤❤🇭🇳🇭🇳
Bonito video saludes 👋👋🇭🇳🇭🇳❤️❤️ Dios los bendiga....
Hey Minerves. I think you’ve settled. I can remember or maybe you’re in flight. I wanted advice if you’re able to about San Pedro Sula. I remember you guys lived there I believe and I see cost effective direct flights. Any suggestions on places to stay? See? Also…. Safe and Happy travels!!!
Send me a message on Facebook. I can’t find you.
Hi! Do you guys use a specific carrier/boat- ompany to transport everything over seas? Or do you take everything in that Uhaul with you on the plane?
We brought all those bags in the plane. I believe we had 1 carry on and 1 check in free. We had a moving allowance so instead of shipping just brought the rest of the plane and used the money for weight/extra bags.
I think I missed it. Are you shipping the reusable bins?
They are our check ins for the plane. Instead of bringing just suitcases, it’s a mixture of suitcases and totes. We will use them as storage bins when we get there since they last long and are expensive/hard to come by. Should have clarified sorry!
@@MinervesOnTheMove smart!!
Hang time!! Educators love to school us and I’m here for it!
Great video; very informative!
I am a single mother binge watching… ima just have to meet my husband over there cuz I’ve been ready to leave since I turned 30
You know what they say. Don’t bring sand to a beach 🤷♀️😂 Luckily, we have some high quality sand but sis, you betta come over here, live your life, and find your husband!
Good on you for being factual! Everyone is trying to claim 3-400% increase. Lying doesn’t help anything. This is a bad situation withOUT having to exaggerate it.
Sad I missed it but just watched. Yay!!!!!! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 what an amazing experience to look forward to
Thanks for watching and you’ll catch us Next time!
I'm glad to see you guys! My husband and I have lived abroad for 3 years and even had our youngest son abroad. Though we miss our family in the USA, we believe we made the best decision for our family. New subscriber!
See and if I could go back in time I would have done the same thing! Moved to Honduras, had all my kids, stayed for a good decade, and made my way around the globe. DR, Africa, and so on in that order. You both are smart people!
@MinervesOnTheMove hey, we live, learn, and then we educate! 🤣There are so many things we would have done differently as well, but everything always works out as it should🤗. I'm excited to follow your journey. God bless!
It's refreshing to see an AA BM so pleasant and appears to be genuine and kind.
Awww I will make sure to pass this on. The funny thing about this comment is sometimes we argue about him being too nice 😂 😂 Then I tell myself how crazy I am because most people have real issues 🤪🤪
You mean they are not African American. They are black but not African American. The AA culture is unique to the US others may adopt some things but AA culture is grown in the US. Africans in Africa have different cultures than AAs but that doesn't make them not black
Nope, not quite. I have a few friends who also are African American but still not the group of “black people” I’m referring too. For example, let’s say you are born in Ethiopia, move here, become a citizen. That person could and might still identify as AA. I’m talking about people exclusively identify as black. But that being said I’m not here to police anyone’s identity. You are what you are 🤷🏽♀️ I just 1 million percent understand without judgement why some haitians and dominicans choose not to identify as “black.” It makes sense to me now.
I can identify with everything! I moved from Portugal to France and realized that I was spoiled in the U.S.A. I miss steamy hot showers, non-Ikea furniture, and real air conditioning. I was living the glamorous life in the U.S.A. with modern conveniences. I don't miss the crime, and stress, resulting in health issues as I would contemplate jobs that were possibly killing me! Life is about compromise, but I really miss the freezing cold air conditioning and steamy hot showers!
Couldn’t have said it better myself! Everyone whose lived abroad knows exactly what you mean by real air conditioning lol
Last thought yes the bullying is INSANE which is indicative of the environments regardless of socioeconomic class. Thank you for sharing your perspectives. How long are your teaching contracts? Also can you do a meetup???
2 years! And of course we can!
Dominicans in Spanish Harlem are 1000% black … the others yo no se
Consumerism is killing us in America in so many ways and the open carry is unsettling. Also seeing the police w machine guns abroad was INITIALLY unsettling yet there aren’t as many random shooting as the US.
Wait, I didn’t get the notification 😢. Good thing for the replay.
Someone else said the same thing. I am wondering if I took off the bell notification!? But I was looking for you! ♥️
@@MinervesOnTheMoveI feel the love!
Can’t wait to watch this! (Tonight)
Hope you enjoy!
I’m sorry we missed it! Watching now!
Glad to have you here!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Girl when I tell you I could NOT wait to tell you we were going to Africa!! Looks like you won the debate!! ♥️ 🇪🇹 Hopefully we will do another crossover but this time we can meet you in Côte d’ivoire!
@@MinervesOnTheMovespoiler alert! Can’t wait to see the vlogs!!!
Sorry for the multiple comments. I think the US is family friendly just not as…. Say Orlando is meant for all family fun. Yet yep it’s rare. Whereas other countries you are expected to be a family and they cater to it. Side note your glasses and hair look amazing!!
I loved this newlywed style vlog. It was very entertaining. You guys have great chemistry. Ethiopia ❤❤❤❤ Do you have to get any shots?
❤😂😅 Love this hilarious! omw to Costa Rica to vet I am a homeschool mom and we need a spanish tutor on our travels. Maybe you can assist people in their travels there, especially people of color. Since I gave you the idea maybe I can get a deep discount (wink) 😊
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I would love to see housing and know things like: 1. If you can flush toilet paper 2. Cost of living, how much is rent, groceries, what bills do you pay etcetera 3. Where do you buy clothes, especially for the kids and the cost 4. What are import and export prices. Is it affordable to have things shipped to you -Do you have addresses 5. Are there any modern amenities or versatility in neighborhoods 6. Can you grow food where you live are there fruit trees you can just pick from So many questions Thank you for this video
I feel you I just lost my dad and I’m still calling his phone to listen to his voice and I can’t sleep because I miss him so much❤ it’s so hard .
Nah we do the nod in the Bahamas
I am so glad to have come across this video! It's insightful and inspiring to see black women thriving in Honduras, especially seeing a single woman there as I am single too.
If u say your husband is Trini he may have vincy roots if he digs deep which would explain why he dance to garifuna so good.
What’s vincy roots?
@@MinervesOnTheMove u didnt know St.vincent is the birth place of the Garifuna people, Some of us was exiled to places like Honduras / Belize/ Nicaragua/ and Guatamala in the Carib wars, also plenty Vincy People would go to T&T in the earlys to help Build this great nation called Trinidad, we basically is the foundation us and Grenada but we dont recieve our flowers which isnt a problem but we still would like to b recognize for our role play, anyhow thats why I said that your husband may have vincy roots just like yourself.
@quirkleinacircle7795 Thank you for filling me in and I 100% agree with you!!
@@MinervesOnTheMove u r most welcome and u and your husband should take a trip to St.vincent especially around june july, thats when we have our carnival, Im pretty sure u will more than enjoy it and believe me u will feel at home.
When you get back to Honduras?😂😂
🤣🤣 I wish though!
How can you find out the salaries before applying? I know as a TEFL instructor working at a university or language school it's about $800 a month for Latin America, $2,000-3,000 for Asia and $3,000-5,000 for the Middle East but I don't know about salaries in top tier international schools.
When you sign up through one of the agencies they will list the salaries. So I know AMISA ISS ans Search list there’s. Teacher Horizons is free to sign up and usually list the salaries for most positions but not all
❤😢I am so so sorry! Thank you 🙏🏽 for sharing your heart and your hurts! I cried with you! And I know exactly how you felt and feel!
❤️❤️❤️ Sorry for your loss as well. I understand everyone will leave this earth but it still feels like our parents are supposed to always be here. My brain understands that but my heart doesn’t want to believe it.
Tu español no es malo para nada! Your spanish is not bad at all! You have a very soft accent in just a few words you say. ❤
Im ready to visit Honduras for a few weeks. Any tips??😊
Omg you are going!!! Yayyy! Where?
@@MinervesOnTheMove haven’t gotten that far lol I need tips to book tixxxxx. I can go back and rewatch your videos. I just pick and book.
I’m from Oakland California, I traveled to Honduras in May 2024. I felt safer in Honduras than I do in Oakland. If you know Oakland, you can’t walk around at night for sure and even during the daytime you may get robbed. I landed in San Pedro Sula, I was with my girlfriend who is Hondurena, originally from El Progresso. Before I flew out, of course I looked at a bunch of UA-cam videos and a lot of them were on that hype of danger. I actually had a wonderful time in the city, there’s a lot to do a lot to see, the sketchy part was driving a little bit over an hour to El Progresso. I wasn’t sure of the law enforcement there because they kept looking through the windshield as we drive-by. I was waiting for someone to pull the cell phone up to their ear, which will give me the indication that they call down the road and say stop that vehicle. I had no issues with that thankfully. Another sketchy time was GPS taking us from El Progresso back to San Pedro Sula on a different route. Even my girlfriend was a little fearful because the area that we were traveling through she knew it wasn’t the place to be especially for tourist, but all in all, I love the trip and I plan on going back. I met a few Americans there who own property in Honduras, they visit a few times a month from Texas. I need to study Spanish for sure, but I heard Roatan where there’s a lot of Expats They mainly speak English on that island. Oh, and the food, the food is organic, just as long as you go to a good restaurant you can taste the difference. They do have a lot of American fast food places there, stay away, you see what Americans have to deal with in regards to food being processed.
Such a small world! I’m originally from SoCal but moved to the bay in HS. I went to O’dowd in Oakland. Although that was decades ago haha. I’m glad to hear you had such a good time in SPS! We genuinely miss and love Honduras so much. It would be a dream to retire there one day.
This is helpful lol and yep it’s a dumpster fire here hide your kids hide your wives
Not hide your kids hide your wives 🤣🤣
We are actually moving right now and although my kids look forward to their new home and school, they also cried for their friends, old life,... which broke my heart and even made us doubt whether we made the right choice. But seeing your video was such a relief, we actually fulfilled all tips, all of them. I especially loved "you are not a tree". Honestly, your tips are amazing. Thank you for that, God bless you and your beloved ones.
I'm glad this was helpful! I would add buying a bunch of toys from family dollar or Ross (just somewhere inexpensive). We got invited to so many birthday parties for our kids and toys are expensive overseas. So not just toys to play with but also for gifts at birthday parties, christmas, etc...
Judging from your skin color got to have some cream in you. And of course you going to throw in with the winning hand and declare yourself black and pro black to boot.
What a beautiful home, beautiful family on both sides. Also your hair is flourishing. If you’re still around, would you consider a meetup? Not the black lawn jockey 😂 I dig it. Also why don’t you play the lotto??? All you need is a dollar and a dream.
😂 Yes girl! And thank you so much!
I am HOLLERIN at the flashback to Legoland in Florida. 😭😭😭 And why did Monty instigate that? Now why you gotta do my nephew like that???? Ian’s Dads house is BEAUTIFUL! Ian favors his dad in a lot of ways. Thank you for taking us on this journey! New York is one of my favorite places!
😂😂😂 Thanks for watching!
Because i love USA, I'M from India🇮🇳
can we be friends? I will do your UA-cam thumbnail and video editing.
Hello brother Can I make your thumbnails 🥰
I'm sick of this subject..Its illiterate imo. Black people continue to marginalise themselves
Like no one says oh my parents are both white or Mexican. Like you just say oh my dad is coming over. Not oh my dad is white lol 😅
Exactly!
Beautifully said!
Yea and what a big surprise falling in line as a black. Oh no it's not nothing to gain being white in today's American.
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So this cracks me up because I grew up in Southern California where someone cannot make it through a complete sentence without telling you what that person's racial identity is and I started to say to people why did you need to tell me that your Gardener was Mexican what difference does it make? It's interesting when you see who's really racist and who is not it's kind of surprising sometimes.😂
I'm originally from Long Beach, California! Is it like that now? I don't remember it being that way hahaha
❤❤❤ People with good values like you need to be celebrated. Thank You.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Are you also pro white?
Seems like she is pro loving everyone to me.
@@queentargaryen9389 same here! #all lives matter
Of course she isn't well except if we have some tax monies to fork over. No wait not even then it is demanded of we people of white. Keep working paying taxes and keep our mouth shut and then we are the good ones.