Uni

Well Heriot-Watt uni is set in the most beautiful surroundings...It's like in a forest full of trees that few have been cut down to build on...So all the buildings, roads, car parks etc are surrounded by all these trees...It's very tranquil and calm even yesterday when there was hundreds of parents milling around dropping off their children...So much so that M now wants to go there...(I know he can't as he's not capable of going to uni but that's how peaceful it is)...It's just off the edinburgh bypass but there is a direct bus into the city that only costs them a £1...As it's campus based they have a doctors, dentist, shops, bank, launderette etc on site :o) ...So we found it relatively easily kinda LOL...I drove right up to where she needed to pick up her keys and dropped her there and went down to her building to get a space to get her gear out...We didn't have enuff room for everything <sigh> so a return trip may be called for in a couple of weeks LOL...Her telly and dvd player are still here and am sure she's forgotten loads of stuff...Her pal is going on fri for the weekend so she can take her new bank card down and her sheepskin jacket and coat.

Her room is on the top floor of her halls...There's a corridor with 2 rooms either side then a kitchen...Next to her kitchen is another kitchen then another 2 rooms either side...Opposite the kitchens is their toilets and showers...En-suite cost too much money and she wasn't bothered about sharing...I just hope they all take turns in cleaning both the kitchens and the loos/showers LOL...Kitchen is ok size with a table and 4 chairs in it but badly layed out i think...They all have a lockable cupboard each but they are teensy...They have a huge fridge and a huge freezer too...More than a shelf each in both...Got her labels to label her food with just in case...Tiny cupboards don't have enuff room for all the food i bought in asda LOL...You can't even get a packet of brekkie cereal in it...There are big cupboards in the kitchen but they have the hoover, ironing board, iron etc etc in them...In her room she has her own sink with a big cupboard under it so all her kitchen utensils, pans, crockery etc are in there...The window in her room is pretty, all the top floor room windows are arched...Plenty room under her bed for her cases...Not only is there a padded headboard but down the side of the bed is padded on the wall too...Makes it a comfy place to sit for friends when they pop in :o) ...Plenty hanging space in the wardrobe and shelving in it too...Big cupboard on top of wardrobe...Pin board cover whole of the wall the bed is on LOL...The desk is same size as her bed...4 huge drawers at either side one of which locks...Loads of book shelving above the desk...She also has a phone in her room...Calls within campus are free so nice she can phone her friends in other halls...She can if she wants pay £25 a month and be able to use it to make outside calls...They get a telephone number bit like a mobile one so people can call her on it...Nice to know i can ring her...Her halls are right beside the medical centre and the student union is right behind them ROFL...There is a communal TV lounge on her floor for her block within the halls...Also they have a big lockable cupboard on their floor for luggage etc...They store their bulky stuff there when they get kicked out over the easter holidays

I said before that she had been talking to some other freshers already over the net and she's met some of them already :o) ...Her room was full of people when we dropped in today and they seem like a really nice bunch...Am so glad she has made friends already as she had major problems with that at school <sigh> ...Guess who had the room party last nite ROFL...Out of the people she met online she is the only one in her halls and well it is right beside the student union LOL...Also i guess some of the others lived in same building so had someone to walk back to rooms with...Think they were walking back in daylight today <ggg> Like mother, like daughter LOL...I used to organise really good house parties when i was still with my ex...All our friends at the time said we threw the best ones...Funny when he left his parties weren't as good <ggg> ...She texted me earlier and she's been told how to fix her lappy and it won't be hard to do...She will need an XP disc though...Texted her back and told her if she can't find someone with one on campus to let me know ASAP and i can send one down

I left home myself at same age to come here to go to art school...So i didn't think i would be that bad about her leaving...WRONG i am but hey ho i'll settle and get used to it...Be worse when she is 3rd year of her course anyways...Her course is Foreign Languages and Teaching of English to None Speakers of the English Language...It's 4 years long and in 3rd year she has to spend it abroad in a country that speaks the language she is majoring in...So she will be off to somewhere that speaks spanish...Spanish and German are the languages she is doing although she may pick up another one there.

Me and the boys stayed with a friend from online last nite and it was good :o) ...The bits and bobs K needed that i forgot to get in asda i got in tescos today...I still forgot toothpaste and soap...We forgot to pack both and forgot in asda too LOL...Oh well she can spend some money on that...Won't cost as much as food LOL...No idea what all of the freshers week events she wants to go to except the school disco on tues...Jo O'Meara from S-club is going to be at it...The blonde one from the group who could actually sing unlike the pretty one who got the record deal ROFL...Anyways she seems settled although she was very very huggy when we left and neither her nor me cried so i think we did well...Gonna go now and watch more Red Dwarf on telly......toodle pip tc xxx