Backround
How we know, London is the most cosmopolitan city of the world so there are a lot of people here that they aren't going to buy a house instead they will rent a room, a whole house, an studio, hostels, hall of residence, etc.
Overcome to the students they have a lot of problems to find an accomodation, if they don't have any accomodation fixed before coming to London like in a hall of residence, because is too expensive, too far, too dirty (London houses are not clean at all, at least comparing to Madrid, Paris, Munich,etc..). Maybe one of the reason of this it's what we are talking about, a lot of landlords are renting room by room to different people everymonths and they don't care about their own house forgetting to clean them, they just care about to earn money and that's all.
However, cleanliness is not the main problem, like I said before the students have other problems like distance, fees, flatmates, etc. So would be fine to find out what the students' problems are, and things the university could done to help them.
Aims
The object of our research is to find out the main problems for the students to find accommodation and how they are living in their current accommodation
Method
The method we'll use is to write a questionaire of 10 questions with some possible answers and the people interviewed will tick just one answer per question. Then we'll check the answers and make an analysis.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Oxford on sundays, Never GO!
Honestly, I won´t go again to Oxford on sunday to search for some entertainment, after being there the last sunday .
Why do I say that?
I thought the city of Oxford, one of the most popular cities in England and in the worl thank´s to the famous university, was going to be amazing for students like us. There are a lot of colleges and private halls filled with students but we didn´t see any of them, only tourists were on the streets. It was drizzting, so this wasn't a reason for not see anybody or any good entertainment to do there.
One of the first things we did, was to go to the castle of Oxford to see an exhibition wich was advertised as being a "super exhibition of The Earth from the air that has giants pictures" like they said in the webpage of Oxford. Obviusly, there is always an exaggeration in advertising but this really wasn´t how we had es
pected it to be. The pictures were big but not "giants" but i can't say the pictures weren't interesting, just the way they were shown to the people was lacking in energy. Finally, after seeing around seven pictures you could look just in front of you the shop of the exhibition, it was like the pictures were the streetside and the end of the street was the shop.
As you can see in the picture, the castle of Oxford is next to a modern house! So another aspect that we didn't liked. Maybe the exhibition was for middle-aged people and older that would like it but I don't think many students like us would.
Walking on the streets looking for something to do, we could see a lot of pubs and night clubs closed. It was logical because it was sunday. So I could say that maybe a lot of students will join them but not on sunday in the morning or afternoon.However, I think if you go not like a day-triper like us and you sleep in Oxford you could go to this pubs, night clubs and have a good time with the other students. This night club of the picture could be a good option and you can see that it's open all the week nights.
The best thing you can do as student in Oxford on sunday could be go shopping because there are lot of stores but obviously anybody goes to Oxford to go shopping, because could do it in any city of England.
Why do I say that?
I thought the city of Oxford, one of the most popular cities in England and in the worl thank´s to the famous university, was going to be amazing for students like us. There are a lot of colleges and private halls filled with students but we didn´t see any of them, only tourists were on the streets. It was drizzting, so this wasn't a reason for not see anybody or any good entertainment to do there.
One of the first things we did, was to go to the castle of Oxford to see an exhibition wich was advertised as being a "super exhibition of The Earth from the air that has giants pictures" like they said in the webpage of Oxford. Obviusly, there is always an exaggeration in advertising but this really wasn´t how we had es
pected it to be. The pictures were big but not "giants" but i can't say the pictures weren't interesting, just the way they were shown to the people was lacking in energy. Finally, after seeing around seven pictures you could look just in front of you the shop of the exhibition, it was like the pictures were the streetside and the end of the street was the shop.As you can see in the picture, the castle of Oxford is next to a modern house! So another aspect that we didn't liked. Maybe the exhibition was for middle-aged people and older that would like it but I don't think many students like us would.
Walking on the streets looking for something to do, we could see a lot of pubs and night clubs closed. It was logical because it was sunday. So I could say that maybe a lot of students will join them but not on sunday in the morning or afternoon.However, I think if you go not like a day-triper like us and you sleep in Oxford you could go to this pubs, night clubs and have a good time with the other students. This night club of the picture could be a good option and you can see that it's open all the week nights.
The best thing you can do as student in Oxford on sunday could be go shopping because there are lot of stores but obviously anybody goes to Oxford to go shopping, because could do it in any city of England.
Friday, 3 October 2008
Selfstudying in the last 2 weeks
I arrived two weeks ago without accomodation neither knowing anybody so I was alone the first days in this new country to improve my english as much as posible. At the airport a brother of one of my friends in Spain called me telling me that he had one room available so close to the university but I told him that Im going to stay here for just 4 months and I don't to speak in spanish because I'm focused in improve my english and not spanish.
The first week apart doing homework diary I used to go alone to the Pub of the university to meet people and try to speak english and listen people speaking in english. The first day there were 2 funny shows that I enjoyed but I didn'n meet anybody. The next day I went with Hajime and we were talking a lot in english with other Japanese people and was quite fun. On friday night I went again to the pub alone and a french guy that was in the same situation than me began to talk to me and we were talking for a few hours( more and more hours of english selfstudying!!).
The last saturday I went to central london to know more London and to see at lot of shops. Finaly I had dinner in chinese restaurant buffet in Chinatown and enjoyed it a lot. Before that I took a beer wathing the football match of Arsenal in a Oneil's Pub and was amazing.
On sunday I just rest a lot in my room of the bed and breakfast and enjoyed watching the TV ( BBC1,2,3; Dave; Sky Sports news; Five...), and during the eveningt I made the exercises of the Unit 1 from the CD( more selfstudy hours). Since that day I watch the TV everyevenings in my room because there are good shows and funny series. The day before yesterday was the first chapter of the new season of heroes that in Spain I have seen all the seasons so it was very interesting and enjoyed a lot ( it counts!!)hehehehe.
Finaly yesterday I gave to a chinese girl a part of the deposit that I have to pay on sunday because I liked vey much the room she offered me and she tole she will introduce me to her friends and I'll do the same with my friends so it sounds very interesting.
The first week apart doing homework diary I used to go alone to the Pub of the university to meet people and try to speak english and listen people speaking in english. The first day there were 2 funny shows that I enjoyed but I didn'n meet anybody. The next day I went with Hajime and we were talking a lot in english with other Japanese people and was quite fun. On friday night I went again to the pub alone and a french guy that was in the same situation than me began to talk to me and we were talking for a few hours( more and more hours of english selfstudying!!).
The last saturday I went to central london to know more London and to see at lot of shops. Finaly I had dinner in chinese restaurant buffet in Chinatown and enjoyed it a lot. Before that I took a beer wathing the football match of Arsenal in a Oneil's Pub and was amazing.
On sunday I just rest a lot in my room of the bed and breakfast and enjoyed watching the TV ( BBC1,2,3; Dave; Sky Sports news; Five...), and during the eveningt I made the exercises of the Unit 1 from the CD( more selfstudy hours). Since that day I watch the TV everyevenings in my room because there are good shows and funny series. The day before yesterday was the first chapter of the new season of heroes that in Spain I have seen all the seasons so it was very interesting and enjoyed a lot ( it counts!!)hehehehe.
Finaly yesterday I gave to a chinese girl a part of the deposit that I have to pay on sunday because I liked vey much the room she offered me and she tole she will introduce me to her friends and I'll do the same with my friends so it sounds very interesting.
Adi people
Today we watched a good documentary video about a guy living in a tribu and following their habits, customs, etc.
I have to write about how they have fun comaparing to the spanish culture. One of the main costums they usually do and they join a lot as well, is to sacrifice a big bison. Later that everybody is going to have some kilos of it. Compared to Spain we don't have any rituals like sacrificing animals, we just kill them and then we eat them but we don't enjoy it as a ritual or something similar.
One similiarity could be the way they have fun during the night. They dance and they listen to the music like we do in Spain, it's in a different way but we can count it like a similiarity. Looking in Wikipedia I found that they celebrate a lot of festivals and the most important of them is called Solung on the 1st of September.
I have to write about how they have fun comaparing to the spanish culture. One of the main costums they usually do and they join a lot as well, is to sacrifice a big bison. Later that everybody is going to have some kilos of it. Compared to Spain we don't have any rituals like sacrificing animals, we just kill them and then we eat them but we don't enjoy it as a ritual or something similar.
One similiarity could be the way they have fun during the night. They dance and they listen to the music like we do in Spain, it's in a different way but we can count it like a similiarity. Looking in Wikipedia I found that they celebrate a lot of festivals and the most important of them is called Solung on the 1st of September.
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