Hello, my name is Meetraj Singh. I'm a student of Architecture Technology. This is my dorm here at
Meridian Court, which is located at NG1 5DT, Quorn Road which is near Sherwood. It is a 14
minutes walk distance from uni, if you're energetic enough, but we get bus pass here and
which takes 15 minutes. This is a shared room and as you can see there's the bed, the working desk,
the wardrobe and a basin here for little touch-ups. All right, would you like to talk about
any creative space in your room or where did you get your belongings from? Well my belongings
as I'm an international student, I come from Tanzania, my belongings were here
and of course a little bit pictures with me and my friends, it's just a little decorative over here so
I would like more either. I just put my timetable or I just put some pictures wherever I go to.
I've been to Newstead Abbey so there's a postcard over there and well of course.
Through my window I have this like, I have this good view so like it's well children play here down there
because it's school ground but it's good here sometimes and the view of sunset is really nice here.
I bet. Since it's a shared room and since you moved from international,
were there anything inclusive or did you get everything or did you shop some things?
Yes when I came in of course the room was empty and I had to purchase some stuff for my living
here and of course some of the things are taken from home. All right, would you like
to show us around? Yeah sure. So as I've told you that this is a sharing flat so I'm
just next to the bathroom. So over here this is the shared bathroom over here we have two toilets and
and right over here there are three bathrooms. It is quite okay
living with us. There are 10 people in this flat so it's quite comfortable.
The next thing I'm going to show you, as I said it's sharing, so we're going to show you the kitchen.
So basically this is our kitchen here and this is where I talk with my other flatmates,
we sort of have fun and have food together many times. Well this is my cupboard given to me
so as you can see I have arranged my cutlery, my spices or whatever I've done my shopping with
and I have bought some like food from either Tesco or Aldi. I have put it in here.
Well as you can see it's sharing, so this is my shelf for the fridge but for other people,
it's like they have arranged their own stuff down there. As you can see, maybe for security
reasons we are not allowed to have gas so we have induction here and there's
an oven here so we can maybe make our pizza or other food.
So I have a question for you. Do you cook a lot or do you go out and eat?
Basically most of the time I cook myself. I have a Sikh Temple nearby, so for some days I discovered how to have food there.
All right, so it was a very beautiful apartment. I would like to ask a few more questions regarding this.
Would you like to tell us more about Meridian Court?
Yes. So as I told you that is is situated in Quorn Road. Some people must be wondering how do I get my
stuff like groceries or somewhere or how do I go to the university. Well, in this one
big area there are three supermarkets nearby, the two nearest are Sainsbury's and Aldi,
where we get our stuff for groceries and there is Tesco at Bernard Street which is over there.
For students who really like to stay fit there is a gym also nearby so they can
take gym membership of that, it's called Pure Gym. If suppose students would like to go out and
play pool table or have drinks with their friends at the bar, there's a good
pub nearby also. The bus stop is ten to eight minutes walk over around here.
Of course I told you that while taking accommodation at Meridian Court we do get a bus
pass and so if they want to go towards the city or wherever they want to travel with
bus, there's a bus outside you can board. All right. Also I did not see any washing machines in any
of the rooms, so would you like to talk about how do you do laundries?
Oh yes. As I told you where the reception is there's a common room nearby. At the same area there's a laundry,
it has full washing machine and we have four dryer machines. We have to pay around like
three pounds to do a laundry. So two pounds will be for washing and a pound will be for drying the
clothes. We have to purchase our own detergents or nowadays those detergent capsules or whatever
people are comfortable in washing their clothes with, so the laundry is also downstairs.
Would you like to talk about rent, approximately, how much do you pay?
About the rent? Yes, so it's £105 a week and annually it's £4664. The good part about this accommodation is it is
university accommodation, so we have a good option of paying it in instalments
which are really good things that our parents can pay for. It is quite easy for them,
it's after every three months which gives them time to arrange for that certain period
like for that certain period so that we don't have any problem living here. All the bills are included
and there's nothing excluded.
So apart from the kitchen area and your rooms, do you have any shared rooms where you guys, where your friends meet and have like a social activity?
Yes so down near the entrance we have, once you enter the Meridian Court, there is a
common room, near the reception where all weekly events happen, whether that's movie
nights or food and drinks events and friends from other blocks they just come in and we all
talk and watch, sometimes we do watch football there because there's a TV there so yes.
Since you're new to Nottingham and you're exploring Nottingham, would you like to tell
us your most amazing, like most favourite place in Nottingham?
Well, like you know I've been exploring but I think I like Old Market Square because like that's where people walk around and
I mean many people go there and especially the Council Building is, you know, that it's quite beautiful.
All right and one last question. Would you like to give any advice for upcoming
students who are looking for accommodations?
I would yes. You should read through your contract before moving in or choosing any accommodation because that's very important.
Sometimes you think this is the right accommodation for you but there might be some clauses which
in the future you may not know you will find some difficulties in that, so read through
a contract and every payment date so that you never get any difficulties in living in your accommodation in Nottingham.
All right thank you so much, it was lovely meeting you. Bye bye now. Thank you bye.