Hiiiii um my name is Li Mei. Welcome back to my channel um this is an exciting video,
I think it'll be really useful for a lot of people. Um we've got a hall tour of KJ which
is Katharine Jermyn hall in Wellington. It's one of the Victoria Uni student accommodations and
I stayed there last year in 2021. So yeah I've honestly just done a little walk through. It's
got my room it's got all the common areas, it'll have lots of useful information about how hall
life works if you're going to be moving there um soon and yeah I've just got a little voice over.
Might as well get into it. Let's go! So this is KJ. You have to swipe your student ID to get into
the hall every time. Really good security. It's 14 stories tall, 2-14 have residents on them,
and one and two are like common areas and dining halls. Um you walk into the lobby and then to
the left is the hub. You've got a pool table, table tennis table, there's a bunch of couches,
tv, which sometimes like the hall will play sports games on, or you can watch movies. It has like
Netflix and then there's these big tables good for studying and a little kitchenette down there.
There's also a basketball court outside very... um not... I wouldn't call it a court, maybe
a hoop and some space, but it's it's pretty cool. Uh there's also the design room but unfortunately
it was locked. Uh but there's just some tables and stuff like that and they're great if you have
like arty projects and you need a bit of space to work on them. If you continue down the side
there's some bathrooms and then the gymnasium as they would call it or just a gym. Um it's
pretty small but it's got everything you need and like you don't have to pay extra for or anything,
it's included in your um rent I guess you would call it. But yeah, so if you come back back into
the lobby usually um RAs will sit in the lobby in the evening and there might be a night manager or
security guard um on certain nights of the week. Um this was the day that like before
everyone moved out so there's all this stuff for donation down there um outside the office.
And then in the office if you need a hand with anything you can always go down there during the
day there'll be someone. Um yeah and then there's lifts in the center or you can take the stairs up.
So yeah this is a dining hall there's like cutlery, a sort of salad bar on the right,
there's bins on the left and you put your dishes there. So perk about living in halls is you don't
have to wash any dishes! Um this must have been Friday fry up or something like that because it's
all fried food um. But yeah, it's pretty empty because it was... we were moving out the next
day that's why there's no one there. But you just serve up your own food most of the time,
take it to the tables to eat, there's lots of sauces and then return all your dishes after
you're done. Super easy. There's also cups and taps to make drinks. There's a hot drink machine,
there's also vending machines. As you can see they do get quite empty, super popular, but they
get refilled pretty often. Um this is the biggest study room it um... as you can see very spacious.
There's a printer and photocopier that you can use um with your Vic student ID and stuff like that.
And then there's more bathrooms there. Hot tip those are the nicest bathrooms in the whole hall!
Um and then there's another study room smaller and a music room that has a piano in it. The piano is
decent. There is where we do all of our laundry and washing.
So the washers and dryers are two dollars each. I am telling you now they are massive.
Um I genuinely never filled up a washer or dryer in my time there because I did not have enough
stuff to clean. Um and then you just like select which machine you want and then the settings
whether it's hot or cold, things like that and you can pay by EFTPOS. Um yeah so we just got up the
lift and then this is floor 14 where I was living for the second half of the year. Um the floors
all go like in a circle so you can totally walk around from the lift in a circle back to the lift.
On the opposite side to the lifts there are the bathrooms. These are what the bathrooms look like.
One thing I did like about KJ is that the bathrooms all have a toilet, sink and shower
and one cubicle which is really nice. This was my room 1430. Yeah so this is my room
um you can shuffle around the furniture as much as you want um, however the shelves are bolted
to the wall... so would not recommend moving those. But yeah so all of the rooms come with a
table, uh it's quite long, quite a long desk, um a chair, a small rubbish bin, a bed,
a pin board, some shelves above the pin board, and then a set of like
um where you can like hang up your clothes as well as like I guess cubby hole shelf type things.
Um you'd be surprised how much stuff you can fit in there, like I have a lot of crafty and
I guess hobby materials um and I had no problem whatsoever fitting all my stuff in there. I had my
little wall planner on the pin board which is very useful. Would recommend getting a wall planner it
makes it very easy to see all your assessments... as you can see there are a lot of assessments.
And there is the gorgeous view of... okay well you can't really see the ocean right now because
it's dark, but um you can see the ocean outside of my window. Oh yeah so these are the cubby holes.
I kept food in some of them always good to have snacks and mini meals that you can make,
craft supplies, these are my clothes hanging, up lots of random bits and bobs, my sewing box,
one for like toiletries. Um yeah and there's also quite a lot of space on top of the cupboards
um between that and the ceiling. Got my little shelves from Kmart they were actually
very useful. I kept um items which I accessed a lot on it like my little shower caddy,
and then like makeup all on the top which I used often next to the mirror.
Um yeah so if you enjoyed this video I really would appreciate uh like subscribe give us a
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to answer them so just comment them down below and I'll get back to you when I can. Hope you enjoyed,
and if you're moving into Katharine Jermyn, best of luck. You're gonna have an amazing time!