Hi guys! My name is Etieno Ekarika and I am a Public Health (Global)
student here in the University of Nottingham. So today I'm going to be giving out valuable
information about things you need to do and things you need to prepare before coming into England.
So if you're a student coming from outside England this video is for you. First off you
need to do your research. Make sure you check all the documents you need. Check your government's
website, you can check your government's website. Also check the UK government's website to find out
the things you need to carry, the documents you need to carry. You need to do your PCR test,
your Covid-19 PCR test before coming. So you check all those things and make
sure you have the right documents, you have the right things to carry so that you won't
get stopped at the airport or you won't get stopped for something that you should have done.
So you can go to www.gov.uk and find out information concerning the country you're coming
from. How long you're going to be isolating, are you going to be isolating and for how long
you're going to be isolating. So there's a scheme that was released, a Test To Release scheme by
the UK government. This Test to Release scheme helps you to shorten your isolation stay if you're
going to be isolating. What you need to do is that when you arrive in England you pay for a PCR
Covid-19 test and if your test comes out negative you'll be allowed to shorten your isolation stay.
The second thing you need to do is to sort out your bank account. You won't be able to do
any online transactions if you don't have a functioning bank account because you definitely
need a bank account to be able to start every online transaction you're going to be doing.
Depending on when you get your main bank account you can actually get like an interim bank account.
Monzo for example is a good interim bank account you can get. It's free, go online, sign up for
Monzo bank account. Get all the things you need to get and get your online transaction going.
Third thing you need to do, you need to also sort out your bedding. If you
are staying in the school's accommodation you have to go to the school's online store and
get your bedding and sort that out. But if you're staying in a private accommodation,
some private accommodation offers bedding as well, some don't, so you have to do that yourself. You
can actually check the Amazon website. Amazon have good and affordable building on Amazon website,
so by the time you come in you don't need to go out because you might not be able to
go because you'll be you'll be in isolation. So Amazon will deliver it to your doorstep.
There are also affordable websites, online websites, where you can actually get your
bedding from, so you just just go on the internet just type in 'affordable bedding'.
Another thing you need to sort out is your groceries. Now you won't be able to go out to buy
food or buy anything food, so I would advise that if you can come in with a little bit of food
material just for the meantime it's also advisable to come in with that. But we have online platforms
where you can actually get your groceries from. So supermarkets like Sainsbury's, Tesco,
Lidl have online platforms where you can actually like stay in the comfort of your room
order whatever food material you want to order and it will be delivered to you at your doorstep.
So we also have like online platforms like JustEat and Deliveroo, so if you
want to get food from your special restaurant, whatever restaurant you want to get food from,
whether that's Chinese restaurant, whether that's Thai restaurant,
whether it's Nigerian restaurant, we have our Nigerian restaurants available on different
online platforms. You don't need to go out, you don't need to have any contact with anybody,
it's delivered right to your doorstep, and you're good to go.
The other thing you need to sort out definitely I would say is your phone contract. So your phone
contract is really important to start because you need to have an emergency contact contact. Whether
that's to contact your family, whether that's to contact your friends. So the good thing about that
is we have different mobile network that have wide ranges of phone contracts where you can
be paying on a monthly basis, it depends on the phone contract you want to get. Me personally,
I'm using LycaMobile, so I pay a monthly subscription, I call it monthly subscription,
but it's a monthly plan. It was a contract that I signed up with LycaMobile so I pay a monthly plan.
I pay a particular sum of amount into that monthly plan and I'm given a SIM card and I'm also given
data. I'm also given talk-time, so you have enough talk-time. You can call
anyone you want to call because it's important to have your phone contracts done so you'll be
able to communicate with your family or whatever emergency contact you're going to be having.
So sort out your phone contract, sort out your bank account, sort out your bedding,
sort out your groceries. Sort out all these things because they are really essential and
they're really important while you isolate. You can sort them out before you come to the UK.
Another thing you need to sort out is registering with a GP or with a health centre. So basically
if you're going to be staying in school you can register with Cripps Health Centre. Cripps Health
Centre is available in school. This is a very good and well equipped health centre. It has a pharmacy
beside it so if you want to get any emergency drugs, all kinds of drugs, or pain relief or
whatever you want to get, there's a pharmacy there. But the good thing is that you don't have
to go in person to register, you can also register online. So check Cripps Health Centre online and
register. It is really important because your health matters, your health is very important,
so you need to start that out. You don't know what emergency might happen and you need to
register with the Health Centre, so they can get your information, they can get your details
and be able to sort you out when that time comes. So with me I didn't stay in on campus but I
registered with the Cripps Health Centre. So I would usually come in from where I was
staying down to the Cripps Health Centre. So get your health registration sorted out.
Last thing but not the least is to come in with something that is going to keep you busy during
your isolation. Come with games, come with books. You can also you know register on Netflix if
you're a movie lover like me, you can have your Netflix account you can have your Amazon Prime
account, Amazon Prime video account, whatever account, whatever thing that is going to keep
you busy. You can also come with board games as well, chess game, board games. Whatever thing
that keeps you busy, come with them because you need it during your isolation period.
And yeah that's it. I wish you a safe flight and I wish you an amazing flight.
I hope to see you soon. Bye!