Moving

So, because of Christmas, I decided it'd be best to move to my mum's already on the 21st. Unfortunately I caught some kind of a flu a few days before, which made packing a whole lot harder. I was a bit feverish but I just had to do as much as I could. One night, even though hugely exhausted already, I found the energy to start packing and sort and pack all my clothes. About half of them won't be going back to Porvoo..... I also packed my bags and shoes and some kitchen stuff and thought the worst part was over when I was looking at this pile:

Ohh how wrong I was... This is how it looked like when we had carried some of the stuff to the lobby while waiting for the other movers to get their van out of the way. AND this wasn't all either. No no no...

In the end we had to make two trips with the van. My brother had borrowed it from work and it had tool shelves on the other side that took quite a lot of space. So on the second trip we just had my bed, a shelf/desk, and my bike in the van. But still... I had waaaaay too much stuff that I don't really even need... Felt like a hoarder looking at all the bags and a fully loaded van. And I felt like I would die after carrying all that stuff (well okay my brother ended up carrying most of it because I was so slow due to having to take a break after each bag)...

Leaving my lovely apartment wasn't as sad as I'd imagined. Maybe because I was too ill to think about that... But taking our lovely artwork off the doors wasn't nice, both because they were so awesome and because it was even harder than putting them on...

At the moment I'm abooout going crazy with anxiety and anticipation. I think my subconscious is trying to push away the thought of leaving so it wouldn't be so hard, but that only means that every now and then I get these sudden shocks of realization that it's only a few days away. Usually it happens at night when I'm trying to fall asleep and I end up tossing and turning unable to fall asleep because I have so many thoughts running through my head from packing to spring break.

Edit: also, my forehead is full of spots and pimples cause by stress (I don't usually have any, except for this autumn...)

Fanshawe College and my living arrangements

"Fanshawe College is one of the largest colleges in Ontario, Canada. The main campus is in London, Ontario, with additional campuses in Simcoe, St. Thomas, Woodstock, and Tillsonburg. There are approximately 17,000 full-time students and 26,000 part-time students. Fanshawe College has more than 150,000 alumni."

I'm pretty sure the Fanshawe London Campus will seem like a city compared to our little Porvoo "campus". There are several restaurants and cafeterias (Tim Hortons, Pizza Pizza, Outback Shack etc), gym and squash courts, pharmacy, student residences, hair salon, radio and tv stations etc etc...

Here is a link to a video about the campus.

I will not be staying in the student residences that are on campus but in a Townhouse unit (Kestrel Court) which is just on the other side of the road from the main entrance.
The apartments have two floors, and there are six bedrooms on the upper floor and two bedrooms and a kitchen on the lower floor. Light housekeeping once a week is included in the rent.
I chose  Kestrel Court mainly because a meal plan wasn't required like in the campus residence. Also, there is a proper kitchen.

Here is link to a video about the residences. Kestrel part starts at 1:25.

Kestrel Court

London Campus

Main Entrance

The courses I selected. Let's hope I can take all of them and don't need to do any changes...