My Packing List for Harvest School

My Packing List for Harvest School 

     Hello everyone! Thank you for your interest in my packing list! I updated my original packing list (as of July 2017) for Harvest School 20 to include things I wish I would've brought and things that weren't necessary. There are things you can purchase in Pemba now that you couldn't in 2014, so be sure to double check with someone who's been there more recently.

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Carry On Packing List

Sleeping:

Blanket

Travel pillow

Ear plugs

Face mask

Wallet/purse/bag:

Passport

Money-cash and cards

Immunization record

Plane tickets

3 Colored copies of passport & visa on same page

Complete copy of itinerary

Travel insurance information

Liability Release Form

Health insurance info/card/ID
Emergency phone number for Iris & address of school

Hotel reservation info

Art kit to give out prophetic art while traveling

            -1 pack of Twistable crayons

Magazine/suduku book

Book

Journal

Pens/pencils

Glue stick 

Sunglasses and case

Name tag for class with lanyard

Travel size Bible

Flashdrive

Cell phone

Clothing:

Flip flops

Slip on shoes (flats like TOMS)

Sweater

Scarf

Socks

Clothes including underwear

Beanie/head band

Ballet Slippers

Food/Snacks:

Jerky

Apples/hard fruit

Protein bars-low sugar

Trail mix

Healthy snacks

Gum/mints

Filtered water bottle &/or water filtration system

Personal Hygiene:

Chap stick

Emergen-c packets

Deodorant

Razor

Makeup

Tissue

Brush

Hair essentials (hair ties/bobby pins)

Dramamine

First-aid kit

Malaria medicine 

Toothbrush and toothpaste

Unscented lotion

Eye drops

Saline nose spray (dirt dries your nose out)

Hand sanitizer

Wet wipes

Floss picks

Tweezers

Compact mirror

Face wipes for makeup removal (or simply use baby wipes for everything)

Fingernail clippers

Travel size dry shampoo

Head ache medicine

Vitamins/supplements

Deet bug spray (prefers natural products, but not worth getting malaria)

Sunscreen

1-2 boxes of Gas-ex

Pepto-bismol liquid form and tablets
Pro-biotic tablets (for your gut/immune health)

Electronics:

Camera & case

SIM cards

Ipad mini

Noise cancelling headphones

Ear buds

Cell phone

Chargers/adaptors

Batteries for all devices

Outlet adaptors with surge protector

Solar battery charger (be careful what kind you buy-I bought one that was not solar and it must've turned on while traveling. Mine had a flashlight built into it and it never worked!) 

Essential items for Pemba (wouldn’t want lost if luggage didn’t show up. This depends on luggage space)

Pre-treated mosquito net

Permethrin Spray for clothes/mosquito net if I don’t have a pre-treated one

Sleeping bag

1 Power surge protector

Flashlight-I used a handheld flashlight or my cell phone and one you wear on your head. (The kind you wear on your head makes it easier to do a lot of things including going to the bathroom.)

 Things to Bring

Devotional/Notes/Class

Journal 

1 Notebook

1 pack of Pens/pencils

1 Bible

1 Padded folding chair from Crazy Creek for class (Choose your chair wisely-although I'm so thankful I had something to use...by the end of the summer my body ached from sitting on concrete every day.)

Lanyard and name tag

Art supplies

1 pack of Twistable crayons

1 Sketch pad

1 Permanent marker

Clothing and shoes

*Nylon is better for bottoms

 Swim shoes (The beaches are no joke when it comes to sharp objects littering them and/or getting stung by sea urchins, etc.) 

Ballet slippers (I danced)

Leggings (if you are a lady)

Long stretchy pants

PJ’s

Underwear (Bring fabrics that are synthetic that dry quicker)

Shirts

Tank tops

Scarf

Long sleeve shirts

Tennis shoes (I never really wore mine)

Flip flops

Pair of flats-(slip on shoes like Toms)

Dresses

Skirts

One-piece bathing suite (for ladies)

Swim skirt/shorts/capri’s and/or men’s board shorts that cover knees

Capri’s

Socks (may need them if you actually get cold there or happen to wear actual shoes)

Pants (Too hot to wear jeans and most are considered too tight for ladies there, but I wish I'd had them for traveling home)

Sweaters (wore a light weight zip up hoodie more than anything at night when there was a breeze) 

Bags for dirty clothes (Trash bags helped separate clean and dirty clothes-actually I also used those HUGE vacuum/press sealed ziplock bags to store clothes, and it helped with laundry because I would carry wet clothes to the clothing lines and use them to put clothes in as I washed them.)

1 box of ziplock bags of various sizes
Plastic containers (to store food, whatever else you want to keep clean) (You may be able to buy them there now)

Clothing Accessories

Pair(s) of sunglasses with hard case (so they don't break)

1 Hat

Bandana/head bands (helps with windy days, hiding dirty hair, and great to have ones that can be used to cover your mouth and nose if you end up in the back of a truck on dirt roads for hours.)

Housing Accessories

1 Alarm clock (I used my cell phone)

1-2 Cloth hanging shelves (Must have to keep your stuff organized and off the floor)

1 Mosquito net pre-treated with Permethrin

2 sets of bedding-solid blue only twin-size bed

1 pillow (Bring a comfortable pillow-it was the only thing I missed from home) (You could use pillow cases from bedding brought)

1 box of trash bags

1 package of chip clips (could use to hold mosquito net closed, etc)

Hangers (You can probably buy them there now)
Rat traps- (was suggested-never saw rats, so I wouldn't have packed them again)

Bed bug foggers and roach traps (again, not a real problem in our house)

1 set of clothespins 

1 travel size blanket
Travel locks (sometimes I "locked" my bags or tent with luggage locks)

1 twin sized mattress cover-plastic or cloth

2-3 quick dry towels

Command hooks

Plastic coffee mug
1 pair of scissors
1 permanent marker (used it almost daily-to mark food, to write names on water bottles)
Duct tape

Electronics

1 camera (I brought a DSLR but I used my iPhone because it was easier to carry and hide.)

1-2 Extra camera batteries

2-3 Sim cards

1 camera Bag

Re-chargeable batteries if needed

1 battery charger

1 power surge protector

Outlet adapter- Power is 220 V and a two-pin round plug. Bring a converter (220-110 volt). A power surge protector may be useful if you have these items.
Unlocked cell phone in a life-proof case (I didn't and I wish I had with all of the sand/water/dirt) (bring a toothpick/paper clip/actual pin to open your SIM card on cell phone to change it over if you have an iPhone)

1 flashdrive (at least 8GB)

1 pair of head phones

1 Ipad mini with good case-life proof (mostly sat on my bed-listened to music on it and did take it out a few times to take pics, etc-brought it more for travel-but again at your own risk.)

Backpacks/Day bags

1 day bag (used daily for my "purse" and to haul stuff to class) 
1 back pack (I brought a smaller one I used all of the time-that you could fold up into other bags) (I liked that it had zippers/pull strings to keep sand out/keep things hidden/more secure.)

1+ shopping bag-reusable (you can get them at grocery stores, but if you don't have one for shopping in the village, etc. it's necessary to have)

Beach Accessories

1 set mask and snorkel (never used mine-wouldn't pack them again-but someone would enjoy it!)

Luggage

4+ Luggage locks and keys

Drinking Water

1-2  reusable water bottles

1 water-filter system

Personal Hygiene

2-3 bottles dry shampoo

1 regular size deodorant

1 travel size deodorant for carryon

1-2 burts bees chapstick

Tampons/Diva Cup (Real talk-tampons/diva cup are not ideal unless you are okay having to change them with dirty hands)

Sanitary pads

1 package of floss picks

1 Tea-tree shampoo or tea tree oil to add to shampo (regular shampoo can be bought in Pemba)
Essential oils (If there's one thing I wish I would've had then that I didn't it was essential oils-BIRNG THEM ALL!!) (peppermint, thieve, panaway, lavender, etc.) 

1 set of hair ties

1 package of braid size rubber hair ties for braiding hair

1 set of bobby pins

1-2 hand sanitizer with rubber cord that attaches to bag

2 larger hand sanitizer bottle for refills  (may be able to buy there now)

Wet wipes-flexible packaging (Can buy there, but I used every single package I brought and then bought more)

4+ Razors 

1 bottle of headache medicine

1 bottle of shaving cream or just use shampoo/conditioner (can buy in Pemba)

2-3 packages of face wipes (or again just use baby wipes)
Body spray (you'll want to smell good or make your clothes/bedding smell better-believe me)
Jewelry (ladies you can bring accessories and you should-you'll want to feel pretty/dress up-just remember you have to be ok losing it.)
Hair straightener (I know sounds ridiculous-but we all used one our house mom had because you want to feel/look feminine)

Makeup:

            1 waterproof foundation

            2 bare minerals medium beige foundation

            1 setting powder

            1 mascara

            1 multi-purpose brozer/eye shadow

            1 set of makeup brushes in case

            1-3 corrector sticks

            1 eye primer

            1 face primer

            1 liquid black eye liner

            1 bottle face lotion

1 Lufa with suction hook (kept in ziplock bag when not using)

1 bottle/bar Body wash/soap  (can be bought in Pemba)

Tweezers

1-2 toothbrushes (can be bought in Pemba, threw one away when leaving and had one while traveling)

1 tube toothpaste (can be bought in Pemba)

1-2 steri-pod toothbrush holder (sanitizes your toothbrush)

1 fingernail clippers

1 first aid kit-bandaids, alcohol wipes, etc.

1 bottle regular lotion  (can be bought in Pemba)

1 travel size bottle baby powder (never used the one I brought)

1 bottles of sunscreen

2  bottles of deet bug spray (I only wore it when the sun went down and then took it off when I was inside my mosquito net for the night).

1 brush (possibly one that folds and has mirror)

1 comb

1-2 saline nose sprays

2 quick dry towels

1 package of individually packaged anti-septic cleaning solution

1 compact mirror (ladies doing makeup with 3ish mirrors in a house isn't easy in the morning)

1 bottle finger nail polish and 1 package of remover pads

1 q-tip holder with q-tips

1 digital thermometer 

tissues 

Safety pins
Anti-bacterial wet wipes in individual packages

Supplements/Medication

Probiotics

Multi-vitamins

Immune boosters-liquid echinaccea extract, elderberry

Malarone anti-Malaria medicine

1-2 boxes of Gas-ex

Pepto-bismol (liquid form and tablets)

1 box of Emergen-c

Laxatives and/or fiber 
Essential oils
Propel/gatorade packets for electro-light balance (I'd maybe suggest bringing liquid minerals as well.) 
Cold medicine (If you got to the June school it's their winter thus cold season & I got a cold) 
Cough drops (I believe you can buy them there now)
Dramamine (I don't think I ever used mine, but good to have)
1 tube of cortozone (For bug bites)

Snacks

Bags of Beef jerky

Protein powder (Great idea, but I hardly used mine-hard to clean bottles afterwards and not fun to drink when it's not cold...)

Protein bars

Coffee

Spices-cinnamon, garlic powder, etc. (There's probably a larger selection available there now)

Powdered gatoraid and/or propel (I used every single packet I brought and wished I'd had more.) 

Food/food storage

1 set of Tupperware (Can buy there)

1 Set of metal silverware (Can buy there)

Outreach/Sleeping

1 free-standing tent (doesn’t need stakes)

1 Sleeping bag-mummy style-smaller the better for outreach.

1 Flashlight 

1 Head-lamp

1 Camel back

1 Day back pack

1 sleeping mat 

1 inflatable pillow (worst decision ever-BRING A COMFORTABLE PILLOW!)

Money/ID

US dollars-large portraits only (it was really hard to get cash there at times, and when you did you had a harder time getting smaller bills)

            $50 for key deposit

            $ for notarizing passport copies

3 color copies of passport and visa on same page-notarized in Pemba

Passport

ID holder

Immunizations Record

Liability release form

Itinerary

Travel insurance info

Health insurance info

Hotel reservation info

Items asked for by Heidi to leave there

2 plain T-shirts of any size for age 0-18

A pillow and 2 sets of plain blue twin sheet sets

1 Button-up shirt or polo shirt (size small or medium)

T-shirt size small or medium           

A backpack

Sandals or flip flops (any size)

2 mold resistant shower curtains 84-inch

Outreach Items for woman’s ministry in Pemba

Fingernail polish and remover