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Hello, I’ll take you around Southwell Hall. It's one of the two catered halls on Jubilee
Campus at The University of Nottingham. So let’s go and have a look at the rooms…
All the rooms on Jubilee are en-suite which means that you get the toilet and the bathroom
in the room with you.
So we're going to have a look at one of the rooms here. The rooms are quite modern on
Jubilee – they were only built a few years ago. So you get a mini fridge, even though
it’s catered, which is quite good for keeping a drink in. You get a desk, with a lamp. You’ve
got a single bed – in the en-suite rooms on Jubilee they're all single bed. So the
toilet area, you've got a toilet in there with some toilet roll and you’ve got the
shower area as well: those are available in all the en-suite rooms.
Everyone's got a wardrobe with a mirror in, there’s a mirror at the back, and there's
a big desk in here as well. We offer loads of different room types in the University
but on Jubilee Campus all the rooms are exactly like this: en-suite rooms, very modern, quite
bright and airy, and really nice for campus.
We do also have a pantry area where you can make any snacks or anything so if you're hungry
you can get … there’s a toaster to make some toast and there's a microwave so if you’ve
either missed meals in halls or if you're a bit hungry during late-night revision you
can make a microwave meal. We’ve also got ironing boards and irons, so you've got the
essentials really to be able to live in halls and to have a good time at University.
We're coming down now to the communal areas. So in this room we’ve got the Junior Common
Room (the JCR), quite a nice place to kind of chill out with friends and things. Some
rooms have ping-pong tables, some have pool tables, they've got Sky TV. The catered halls
on the campuses have bars; this is the one for Southwell. You've got a pool table underneath
this blanket. They've got a really nice sound system in here as well which I’m quite jealous
of – I never had that in my hall in my first year – and again we’ve got a TV in here
as well, and the bar just behind. It's usually a really good place to come before nights
out to socialize with friends and meet loads of people in the hall.
Newark and Southwell both share a big dining hall called The Atrium so it's just a short
walk outside. For lunch time at the University, you get a meal card and the meal card has
basically got £5.30 on it to go and spend in any catering outlet of the University.
So you can go and spend it at Starbucks, you can go and spend it at the coffee shop, so
you know that's a really good perk of first year and one of the things that I really enjoyed.
You got bike stops outside the hall. A lot of people decide to bike around - you know
our campuses are quite big at the University so riding a bike is a really good way to get
around quick especially if you’re late for that nine o'clock lecture.
On Jubilee, you've got Newark opposite Southwell, so again it's a good way to kind of meet people
from the two different halls. Everyone comes together from both halls to the same dining
room: The Atrium. You get your breakfast in there in the morning, you get your dinner
- you kind of have about two hours where there's cooked breakfast available and another two
hours where there's just a kind of continental selection available. For dinner it's usually
about two hours in the evening where you can eat dinner and the food really varies so it's
kind of on a four-week rotational rota. You've got lots of different kinds of food, you've
got theme nights as well: they usually do, like, Italian theme night, they do Mexican
theme nights.
It's a really good way to meet people because everyone's coming down here at exactly the
same time every day. So, especially when you're in your first year, you come to university
and you don't know anyone - it's a really good way to meet loads of people because you
know, compared to self-catered, when you're in here, you're meeting people at the same
time every day but in self-catered, you have got to go and knock on a lot of flats to go
and meet people.
We also have banquets throughout the year. We had three in our year so it's a really
nice evening where everyone comes down dressed in formal wear, they have the tables laid
out and you have a really nice meal with lots of drinks and really good food and they’re
always one to look forward to.
So, that's a quick whistle stop tour of Southwell.
Thanks guys.
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