Going to university (2019/20 academic year) - and the fledgling freshers are off!

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DS2 just gave me a cuddle do that was nice. DS1 is being stoical/silent/repressed.

Justasking hope you're ok. It's a strange feeling isn't it? Kind of happy/sad. My DS says he's going to miss the dog the most 😢

Just checked out the backpack thread !! .. bunch of angry divs over there !!!!
DS off to a powerlifting competition tomorrow!! .. but did come with us today to get a few mugs and plates . Toiletries.. cleaning stuff ( bet that will last a long time!!)
It's his 19th birthday on Wednesday so I'm glad he doesn't go till Saturday

Whoa...just caught up on the backpack thread too. Bonkers.

Re: contacting them. DH says to wait until he contacts us. Is that the way to go?

Let's hope the vitriolic posters from the backpack thread don't find us here. We'll be ROASTED.

I would wait a bit then a quick text saying hope you're doing ok or dog is coping or our journey home was fine or something like that. We didn't call or FaceTime, waited for her to call us.

It is important of course for them to know they are loved and missed but I definitely feel it's an area where when it comes to the drop off and early days we, as the parents, can try and step up and keep our feelings away from the kids. Totally right to be up front with them beforehand about feelings and anxieties and allows them to do the same but when it comes to the actual separation We want them to enjoy their space and work through their own feelings of missing us without worrying about how we are doing. When we left dd1 at Dundee we just about kept it together for the hugs and then I cried all the way back to the car and in the car but she couldn't see any of that. Db was driving, he alleged he was fine....

I'm obviously very behind as I've missed the backpack thread! Will search now...

Wishing all the DCs good luck!

Dd has another 2 weeks to go until moving in day

Just back from a bedding shopping trip. As I thought we ended up buying the first lot of cushions, throw and duvet set we saw. Of course we then had to look everywhere else first before going back to buy the first stuff.
Relieved DD was keen to buy today and hoping the accommodation crisis will not put her off going. Though she doesn’t want to talk about it at all. She’s hoping she’ll be swapped but I’m not so hopeful. Anybody have story’s of room swaps before Freshers’ Week?

Stories even

Beware the kind messages frm family and friends tonight have broken me.

I am sure it was simpler when I went to uni (daren’t admit how long ago ) there was just no ‘instant’ communication, you queued to use the pay phone to call home on a Sunday night and my mother and I exchanged letters, sounds so old fashioned now. And I just went on my own on the train with two suitcases (& met a very nice young man on the journey who was also studying at the same uni ).

DC1 dropped off. V happy with room and met one of the expected 3 flatmates. I didn't cry until after we walked out of the door.

Have exchanged texts. Has cooked & is apparently hosting the block's Cards Against Humanity game later!

DS dropped off here too (latecomer to the thread). Anyone else in Manchester?

Ds is moving next Sunday. We've bought the basics and I've tried to ask him what I can buy to make his room more homely but he has no clue. His room is pretty spartan with more rubbish in the bin than nick nacks. He only listens to music through earphones so not even a little speaker.

When his sister goes in 2 years time I know that she will be the opposite. Bet she has a Pinterest board by this time next year.

Me too Ragwort

We had a deal with the parents that we had to phone them at least once at week, the cut off being 6pm on Sunday evening. We had a phone in the digs which was incoming calls only, so we'd all queue up for the phone box round the corner

@Benjispruce, DS has just said he met a 3rd year on his shift today - any questions?!

Good to hear Freshers have been dropped successfully! We dropped DD for her 3rd year - 7 hrs in the car round trip on such a lovely day

Just dropped DS off at Exeter's Cornwall campus in Falmouth. What fabulous weather to drive from Weymouth! We stayed there lasted night and are now in Launceston before the drive back to Brighton tomorrow. We won't be doing this journey often!
Beautiful weather, beautiful campus, happy DS ( I think!) We didn't need the mattress protector, bin, toilet brush and none of the over door hooks fitted, but there were plenty of coat hooks anyway.
He had now decided he needs his suit as the Freshers ball is formal apparently, so that'll have to be posted. And forgot his pack of cards. But the girl and boy in his flat look friendly.
I didn't cry at all! But he had had a gap year and I think that made a difference as he's now ready to go.

So I'm back home from a very eventful day but dd2 is settled and has already made plans for tomorrow. Her flat is gorgeous, the view over the city is fab and the one flatmate she met today seemed to be someone she could get on with!

@18:44justasking111 I think a text saying shows things would be fine.

Falmouth That's a gorgeous place to be a student!
We dropped DS off today, he seemed to be the only one of his flat to have arrived today. Journey was a nightmare, standing traffic for over 90mins there and 90mins back.
Have to say the registration was pretty disorganised and the computers kept crashing
He sent me a text to say he had made himself chilli and rice and was off to the students union to watch the footie and try to get chatting to a few others.