Well hello wonderful humans and welcome back to another video.
Today I’m going to be helping my friend move out of Jarratt Hall which is one of the postgraduates
only accommodations at the University of Birmingham and I thought I’d take this
opportunity to show you what a University of Birmingham postgrad accommodation looks like.
Yeah, so you put trash cans over there where you empty all your rubbish There's a
ping pong table. Yeah, there's no other like facilities on the area is there?
There is a common room next to the reception room that you can like use it,
but we never use it. Did anyone actually use it? No, not really I mean I saw some people
did like a party in it but you need to organise it with the reception.
Okay. We, I personally never used it because we used to like gather in other people's or in my flat
like with other friends. Yeah. I mean the kitchen is pretty much big so you don't really need to
do that. But yeah if someone really wants it for like a big party they can use that room. Cool.
Yeah this is our kitchen, we actually share the whole place, I mean I shared it with other
four people and I mean, it's yeah, it's the space. It's nice, it's quite new and yeah. We
can show them the whole, yeah so this is- We have the fridge. So this is the fridge? Yeah so you kind
of get a shelf each. Yeah. And even the cabinet is quite like huge. Yeah, so you'll get a cabinet.
you kind of alloct that yourself don't you? They don't? I mean I actually use the whole cupboard
myself so it was it was pretty huge. It's a lot of storage. Yeah, I even use this part for
myself and they give you the whole like package when you're coming here so. Yeah, so you don't
necessarily have to worry about bringing cutlery? No I mean someone they don't really want to spend
money on stuff like that they can even use the you know shared stuff so. And then just the sink,
microwave and yeah. And then this is just like a table, obviously it's got boxes on now. And the beanbag
So each flat, from what you told me, gets two beanbags? Yeah, they have two and yeah the couch.
And then yeah you get this like cleaning stuff that you can all
use, obviously no one used the iron. No we didn't really because no one really had the iron.
Yeah fair. That's it. This is the corridor and then the whole corridor so there are like five rooms
in each flat, I mean in Jarratt Hall I don't know about other accommodations. Yeah and that green door
leads to the outside world. Yeah that's the outside. Yeah that's the corridor. So you've lived here now
for a year, haven't you? Yeah exactly! And she's the only one left in her flat. Yeah I'm the only one.
Yeah this is, this is pretty much the room. I mean you have some like shelves for the books and then I
mean you have drawers and closets. Single bed. Yeah and you had a ground floor so you looked out
on the laundry room? I actually yeah that's the laundry room. It's so exciting.Okay there's nobody in here
I mean this is the laundry room and there are like washing machines and then the dryers
and but you need to pay separately every week when you're using it. It's like uh five pounds
every time you're using both of them together, so yeah. It's a pretty to be fair of what I know of
other setups, this is a pretty standard setup for a university. I mean yeah everywhere you're
going you have to do this. I mean if you're at the accommodation of the university it works like
that. So when I came here there were like old bunch of old machines but they changed it
so it's actually better yeah. Okay and it's it tells you how to do it all so i'm not going to
go through that. Yeah I mean you have to download an app on your phone and then you're gonna like
use it on that. You're adding some fees and then choose the number of your machine and then it
works easily. I mean it's decent, it's not that big but it's quite convenient. I mean i've seen
the bathroom of other accommodations in Vales this is actually way better. Yeah so Va- Vales
What's it called? Is the full name Vales? Vales got different accommodations like Tennis
Courts. Okay so Vale is a big complex they have loads of different types of accommodation.
Yeah the other types I don't remember
If you have like any problem with the stuff, like that you just can't call the reception or email
them they're just gonna give - I mean based on your requirements they're just going to come fix it. So it will be
fine. Perfect! About the internet when, when you're coming they just give you the password and you -
You need to I guess use the student ID number. I don't really remember and yes you can connect to
the internet easily so. Yeah to be fair I've studied at Nila's before and basically if you are a student
at the University of Birmingham you can log onto the internet, it's really simple to get onto it.
So this is the first trip to the new place! As you can see the car is absolutely crammed and also
when we get to Nila's new place and she's settled in a bit, I'm gonna do a quick interview with her on what it was
like living in Jarrett Hall so stick around for that if you want to know the experience of someone
who lived there for a year and you're thinking of staying there.
How have you found living in
Jarrett Hall? I mean somehow it was nice because you know it gives you the opportunity to have
social interactions with people, actually I made many friends in like the first week I came here
and then even later it was nice because it's so close to the pubs of Selly Oak so
you can go with your friends to different places and it's pretty convenient because
it's so close to the university. It's like five six minutes by walk to the campus so
that was actually pretty easy.
What was your best memory of Jarratt Hall? Well my best memory was that
we used to gather in the kitchen of mine, or other friends, sometimes in the week or during the
weekend so it was nice. Everyone was like living in different flats of Jarratt Hall so it was easy,
convenient, you know? We had our own parties and we can say it was it was nice. And you feel very
like safe, because Jarratt Hall is located in Selly Oak the accommodation is really secure because of the
reception, there's many like a staff you know coming going around. So it was it was really nice yeah.
And it's also super international, isn't it Jarratt Hall? Yeah I mean some of the flats I mean they're like filled
with British people, but yeah generally it's a very like international place. I think the whole,
like all the accommodations are pretty much like you know engaged with international students
rather than British people so. What was the biggest culture shock of moving to the UK? Because you're
from Italy originally, just to clarify. Personally I adapt myself pretty fast to different cultures, I
don't have any problems and I’m kind of a person that has like different international friends.
It wasn't really shocking, I mean yeah I found some- Yeah okay, the shocking thing if like you really
want to know. It's about like the bathroom, about the sink that you guys use like two different
like that (taps) for like hot and cold water. It was shocking I was like what is this? I’ve never seen
this! Like you need to use like separate taps for it so yeah, that was like quite shocking. I guess
that was, yeah that's shocking. The throwback to 90s. Yeah it was really shocking, oh my god! What
would you wish was different about Jarrett Hall, like what do you think you could be improved on?
Maybe sometimes like the, the internet. I mean sometimes it doesn't really work that well but
especially after the pandemic that most of people spend time in their bedrooms it wasn't that fast.
So maybe they can, you know, improve it somehow. Well I mean honestly I didn't have this problem
personally because, as I said before I request a silent room and my room is open to the garden so
I don't have any noises. But my best friend used to live in other side of the Jarret Hall and the flat
was onto the street the Dale Road which Jarrett Hall is located and he was like saying it's so
noisy and like there are many cars coming and going and like neighbours in front of I mean
people who are living like in front of Jarrett, they were pretty noisy. So he wasn't really
satisfied about you know his room in that sense so maybe that's kind of a negative thing maybe
you should pay attention when you're requesting the room that in, which side which part of the like
the whole Jarratt Hall is located. And like you said earlier though if that's a real concern for you
like if you're someone that knows you need silence to work you can always request a quiet room. Yeah
you can even request like if you wanna stay in a, in a flat with people that they don't drink alcohol,
they don't do parties. So you can even request stuff like that. I didn't but hopefully my flatmates they
were fine, they didn't have any parties. I was like the noisy ones! it was fine but you can
request everything, like some people I don't know due to religion stuff or like different different
uh reasons they can request whatever they want so. Well thank you Nila for letting me interview you!
You're welcome.