Moving onto Campus

So in the weekend I also managed to move onto Campus. Thankfully I don't own any furniture, so it was easy enough to fit all my stuff into two car loads.

This was technically my first time onto campus, which some found hard to believe, even though I have lived relatively closely for the past year and a half. My impressions, are just like everybody else's in that the campus is huge, and is very pleasing on the eye. Well at the moment there is a bit of construction going on, however once that is finished, things will look really nice.

The interesting part of my move, was that the apartment I moved into, was a one bedroom apartment shared by two people. One person sleeps in the living room, the other in the bedroom. Of course I got given the apartment with someone living in it already. The story gets more interesting, as the person already living there was away for the Summer and had subleased it to a friend.

So here I am, unlocking the door and walking in. Gag.. Oh dear, the place stinks - a cross between stale curry and body odour - yuck! The kitchen is a mess, the stove looks untouchable, the blue carpet has lots of white dots all over it (which turn out to be rice...) and yea I'm pretty disgusted. Thankfully the bathroom was in a usable state.

Anyway the guy comes out, is apologetic about the mess and explains he thought I was coming tomorrow... So he goes about cleaning up, which he attempts, but doesn't really do well. I.e. he doesn't use the right setting on the vacuum cleaner so nothing gets sucked up, and he just tidies the kitchen a little bit so it's a bit better, but by no means clean.

So being proactive I went about thoroughly vacuuming so I could at least unpack a little. This took me about an hour of going back and forth with the vacuum. Luckily I didn't really clean anymore as the housing front desk lady called me and apologised and said that they would send someone to clean the place. Thankfully I handed the move-in evaluation form promptly, as otherwise I would have expended all this time and energy cleaning when I didn't have to.