On the 18th of August we took Jacques to the Minnesota State University, Mankato (mostly just called Mankato State) to start his studies in Exercise Science.
The moving in was very well organized if you consider that there were almost 15 floors’ worth of students that had to move in using just two elevators.
On arrival, the cars were organized in lines that never waited very long, first in a parking lot and then at the residence itself.
As a parking opened up, you were directed into it and a team of yellow-T-shirted students helped unload each car. Within five minutes you had to take the empty car back to a remote parking lot from where a bus shuttled you back to the residence.
In the mean time Jacques got his dorm room key, we exchanged my ID card for a flat bed trolley and took the first load to the line that waited for one of the elevators. While I was doing this, Gina was guarding the rest on the lawn and Jacques started carrying some loads up the nine flights of stairs to his room.
Along all the lines very helpful students were directing everybody so that the lines never stood waiting too long and even the guy operating the elevator manually, remaing friendly and cheerful throughout the whole day’s up and down.
When everything was in the room, the big unpack started. We helped as far as we could, but the young man knew where he wanted things. The bed presented a challenge. Well, I suppose you make it the way you get into it to sleep in it!
From his window, this is the view:
This last photograph above shows where Jacques will have some of his first classes before winter strikes – on the tennis court!
In the mean time the batlle with the bed seem to have been won!
