I've officially moved into my school hall! Initially, was rather apprehensive about st peter's court cos it's quite far away from school, and the area it's in is supposedly not really safe, but once i opened the door to my room...it's love at first sight! Contrary to the usual, where hall rooms are small to the extent of being claustrophobic, my room is actually somewhat similar in size to my room back in singapore. Although technically that doesn't say much, cos my room back in sg was not super huge to begin with anyway. But just like the small, cosy feeling of it. :P The idea of my own toilet is another plus too. No need to sprint across the corridor in all my unglamness whenever i need to use the loo. Privacy in this sense is always good. :P
Here there's photos of my very own private toilet, my room, the corridor between the rooms in our flat, the common kitchen and the common living area. :P
The view outside my room. :)
The other two people sharing our flat are also chinese, which is quite cool. As alec said, at least it'll be more docile, which is perfectly to my liking. :) The other girl in our flat is this taiwan girl doing her postgrad at notts, and is really nice and friendly. She even offered kenneth and i instant noodles for dinner, which we felt too paiseh to accept. The other guy, also a postgrad, but from china, is more quiet though. All we said to him today was hi and bye...the rest of the time he just stuck to his room. Ah wells maybe after a while he'll open up. :P
Anyway, as with the process of moving into a new room, alec, kenneth and i had to head out for groceries and stuff for the room. Apparently the city centre was rather nearby, so alec suggested we walk there and save the money we'd have to pay for the bus. And lo and behold, down the road, up a slope, and down the slope later, there was Market Square! (Haha although honestly, i think my stamina SUCKS, cos personally i DID think the walking journey was rather too long for my liking. Oopz. :P)
Market Square, aka Nottingham city centre!
This is the part of Nottingham i absolutely love. Everything from the huge open space and the city council building, to the fountain and the tram car, it's just SO beautiful. I could stay there all day. And the shopping in the area's quite good too, so that helps as well. :P
Anyway, Market Square was totally swarming with students, as many people whizzed by with what looked like a truckload worth of groceries and other misc stuff. Because the 3 of us only reached in the afternoon, and only proceeded to start our acquisition process after lunch, all the major cheap outlets like Primark and Tesco were already absolutely raided by the time we arrived. It took us 4 places and 3 shopping areas before we finally laid our hands upon single-sized quilts. Everywhere else there was only king and super king left. No prizes for guessing why the other size we wanted got snapped up so quickly. :P Because we were so loaded down with all our pillows and stuff, we had to leave grocery shopping to tomorrow, and hence dinner consisted of a very sumptuous roasted chicken ham sandwich, with absolutely no other ingredients. Ah wells...at least it's only one day...so i guess i'll survive. Tomorrow i shall go get my cornflakes and milk and pasta! :P
-Xin Ling :)
P.s. Have loads to comment about the travelling prior to reaching notts as well, but it's really late, so i guess i'll leave that to another day. :)
Here there's photos of my very own private toilet, my room, the corridor between the rooms in our flat, the common kitchen and the common living area. :P
The view outside my room. :)