Exciting New Beginnings

We've had a couple of phone calls and quite a few text messages from Little Miss Sensible. The first was to say they had arrived at her University Halls and had brought all the bags and boxes into the room, aided by a random student! Who turned out to be part of the university mentoring scheme, but had just lost his official identification!! The room is tiny and smells like wee according to LMS, she and Mr Messy are off to the supermarket and have added air freshners to the list!! It was only a short conversation as her personal mentor arrived to introduce herself, and see if LMS needed any help with anything.

She rang again a few hours later, just after Mr Messy had left. She sounded happy, bouncy, bubbly and excited. I feel I can now relax a little - she isn't a complete wreck after all :-) She and Mr Messy had been to the supermarket, which is very close to her Halls, which is lucky as she is only a tiny little thing and wouldn't easily manage to lug her shopping long distances!! She was just about to start her unpacking, but said she would send me a picture of the 'before' room!! If I can work out how to get it off my phone and onto the computer I'll post it later. Her personal mentor is sorting out a mix up over her kitchen cupboard keys. The keys she was given only open one cupboard, which is already full of another students food/utensils!! The mentor has also arranged to come over to LMS's room this evening and take her out with a group of other students. That's just the kind of help LMS needs - she is a bouncy, bubbly girl, but needs a bit of a helping hand initially.

The last text message we got said that she had just been collected by a random group of students to go off and search out some cheap lunch!! What's wrong with the lunchbox I packed for her this morning?? lol. The story behind that is when LMS was in Primary School she decided that she would only go to university near to home so that mummy could still make her lunchboxes. So guess who got up early this morning to pack a lunchbox in the specially saved Minnie Mouse lunchbox?? It made her smile, which was the whole point - I'm not bothered if she tosses the whole thing in the nearest bin, so long as it made her realise how much she means to me and that, if I promise to do something (no matter how long ago it was) I will remember and do it :-)

Also spoke to Mr Messy when he was about to set off. He said the pastoral care at the university was EXCELLENT, there were students everywhere offering to help out and nothing seemed to be too much trouble. The staff they met today were all very helpful too. This is exactly the type of atmosphere LMS needs to succeed, which we are both sure she will :-)