Oh, hello Ekta come in. Hi Katatrina, thank you for inviting me in. You're welcome, hi guys I'm Katarina
and I'm gonna show you today where I live. I'm from Croatia and I've been living in this place since November,
no since September so yeah, quite a long time now already. It's a beautiful house show us around.
Yeah so come here. So this is my room. I promise it's always so tidy and I always have flowers.
So yeah you can see that it's quite big, bigger than maybe normal student accommodation
rooms. Especially this is a two bedroom flat so I have a double bed which is quite
spacious so if I have some of my friends they can come and stay overnight if you go out for
example and they live quite away from the city, because this is quite close to the city centre.
I have a wardrobe which is quite big and it's built in. I have a great table with this drawer so
I can have my keyboard inside and these drawers as well. So yeah we can move on.
Here is my roommates room but she's quite busy so let's not disturb her now.
So this is our bathroom. We have a great bath even if you want to relax a bit, we have everything we need.
A really good thing about this place, aside that it's in the city centre, is that we have quite a
lot of drawers and quite a lot of wardrobes for stuff in our rooms and all around the
place basically. So we can move on then. Yeah this is a typical UK thing if you're not familiar with it.
Moving on to the living room and the kitchen is quite connected but still
it's still separated so one can be doing something here and other one can be cooking which is a good thing.
Also because we have quite a nice living room with great sofa and all these cool cool
chairs as well, so it's a good thing for a glass of wine but also for a nice cup of coffee as you
can see we were just having. Yeah we do spend quite a lot of time in the living room as
well because as you see it's a big window so it's quite, it always feels more fresh and bright than
in the room, especially in the afternoon because here is when sun comes. Here we have a bit like
trophies, starting from union fossil fuels to like photographs of good friends, and just some records and flowers of course, some plants.
So what's your favourite corner in the living room?
When I first came here my during my first month it was before uni started, so I was just working.
I would normally in the evening just pop here with a glass of red wine and
I would, I don't know talk to my friends or something. I would be sitting on this one
and be like okay and that's it, like at the end of the day especially after training or something.
So yeah that would be the best corner but kitchen when I'm hungry for sure, so let's show the kitchen.
Again everything you need, a lot of storage places like pots and stuff. Huge fridge with a big freezer.
To be fair it's not really full but it's decent at the moment. We have microwave as well but
you will have it wherever you live I think, no matter which accommodation.
So i have a question for you. Do you like to cook or do you like to go out and eat?
Oh I normally cook. The process of it is kind of my therapy as well. But I like cooking as well because it saves a lot of money so
I go for a big shopping once a week normally and then I cook and then I store it as I say.
I normally put it in the top of here. I finished my last portion of meal today so I have to cook today.
Well literally everything you need like the oven. Oven is quite useful when you're quite busy student
you just pop stuff in and you let it do its stuff.
So can we go outside? Oh outside, yeah I can show you the balcony, although we will kind of freeze because of winter in the UK.
So I have some potatoes there trying to keep chilly but it's really great place as well.
When I came here in September it was really nice because it would be sunny here so
I would spend some time here as well having my meals maybe and all these things would be just
open, so the fresh air can come in and yeah. Here in the city centre. It's quite windy so we should go back. Yeah we should just go back.
A few more questions regarding the house. How much do you pay, I mean roughly you can tell, approximately what's the rent of the house?
Of course. So prices normally, for a place like this, especially if you consider that it is in a city centre, would be around £500 per month.
Bills included or not included would vary and especially with prices and bills
and electricity varying over years and over periods in a year. So that would be the price.
It's a really good location I must say because I do a lot of activities in the city centre.
I do go there for studying sometimes, I go there for exercise, for working.
My course is based on Clifton campus which is about 30 minutes away by bus, it depends on
if it's rush hour of course and stuff like that so I do normally just walk to the city to get a
bus which is five minutes, five to ten minutes. Then I go and get bus which is unibus so
it's correlated directly from the city to the Clifton campus.
I would go, it would take me about 20 to 40 minutes
and it's really a really good connection because the bus goes every five to ten minutes.
A lot of students who study at Clifton, because city you know is a core of everything and the
most activities occur here, although there is a lot happening at Clifton as well, most students
would be based in the city, based like living in a city and be traveling to Clifton.
All right, three favourite places to visit in Nottingham?
Ah yeah okay. Well firstly I would say my yoga studio because that's where I went today so it's fresh. So that's what I like, it's
in NTU gym so there are a lot of activities that you can go for when you come here so
that's one definitely. Then Depot Climbing Centre, another activity but also I have to say that
Nottingham has some really good places for food. We are I think city with
the most independent restaurants and yeah generally independent shops in UK.
I'm not sure you have to double check that but certainly we have a lot of those so I really love
Tough Mary's Bakehouse which is really close to my place as well, so that would that would go for it.
Certainly Wollaton Park for going for a walk because that's one of the most beautiful places
in Nottingham and I can't wait for spring and for all those flowers there to start to get in a
blossom and it will be really really beautiful so check that one out as well.
All right thank you so much once again. You're welcome. Would you like to say goodbye in your native language? Bog vidimo se. Thank you.