MOVE INTO UNIVERSITY WITH ME 📦🥹 exploring oxford, shopping, unpacking *VLOG*

enjoy this university of oxford vlog where i spend my first week in the city exploring, shopping, and settling in before my classes start up in the next 2 weeks 😃 make sure to subscribe to see more vlogs like this!!

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FAQ:
how old are you?: 21
what’s your major?: msc contemporary chinese studies at university of oxford, graduated from ba international relations at lancaster university
how many languages do you know?: english, russian, spanish, chinese
what do you use to film?: sony zv-1 to film, capcut to edit

timestamps:
00:00 intro
00:17 room tour
00:57 exploring town
02:54 shopping
03:50 settling in
05:00 my first thoughts on oxford
08:55 being a tourist
10:14 buying a bike
11:06 getting a job in oxford
13:27 outro

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Would you guys believe me if I said these aren’t all of my things? [Music] [Applause] Good afternoon. We arrived actually quite late last night, so I didn’t film anything. And to be honest, like my room is such a mess. I’m going to show you anyway just cuz I want to do like a cute little front before of my room. Obviously, it’s a work in progress, but yeah. So, this is my bathroom. I’ve decorated a lot of it already. Like, I don’t have much ignor. I’ve already filled like the majority of my shelves here. However, in the main room, I’ve got so much left to unpack. I made a sultanate this morning, namely my little tea and coffee station. I’ve got two suitcases full of clothes. But, to be honest, I’m really happy with the size of my wardrobe. There is so much space in here. I’ve got all the space in the bottom, all this rail space as well. So, I think I’m going to be fine with my clothes to be honest. Oh my days. Why is it so windy? So, we’re going off to town now. I’ve got my MacBook with me. So, I’m going to try and get some work done cuz I’ve got about 3 and 1 half hours of work that I need to do, which I’ve been putting off, but can’t avoid it forever. It’s super windy and it was raining before, but it looks like it’s clearing up a bit, so that’s good. What a name for a company. Cackle Bean. You know what? Shouts out Cackle Bean. So, we’ve just parked up in the center right in front of the Sheldonian theater where my metriculation is going to be. It’s super roomy. You all right, miss? What do you do for a living? Um, I’m an entrepreneur and um millionaire. doesn’t even open. Oh no, there’s no Okay, we are in some back. What the you doing? First day in Oxford. Nearly got run over by a bike. Anyways, we are in the back ends right now. Going on some detour. God, there are a lot of bikes. Going to be me cuz I don’t have a car. Yay. [Music] Going to go get some food. [Music] [Music] There’s a few things I need to get from the home store that’s down the road from me. It’s nearly 5:00, so I’m just going to hope and pray that they don’t close at 5. The road that I live on has so many different shops. Like, I’ve never lived on a road that’s so busy. I believe vibrant is the word that the estate agents use on the living in my house. But on a real note, like genuinely there’s so much going on. There’s so many shops and things like that. And I’m just not used to that cuz I come from quite a small city. But yeah, I’m just going to hope that they’re open. So these guys are open until 9:00. Luckily for me, there’s so much stuff. To be honest, like I don’t even know what I need. Like I’m in this bedding section here. Like what we saying you guys about these? Honestly, I don’t know. I thought they’d have like cleaning supplies and stuff, but they don’t. I’m getting this kettle. I’m getting some batteries. Genuinely came out with like none of the things that I actually need. But at least I have a kettle for my room. Okay, don’t ask me why, but I really really wanted a clear kettle. I I don’t know, but I looked on Amazon. I looked on Curries, and there were just no clear kettles, or at least ones that were pretty decently priced. Like, I bought this one for £20. I mean, I think it’s cute. I think it’s going to go really well with my coffee corner. So, I’ll set up and I’ll show you guys. Okay, so this is what we’re looking like. I’m going to bring like all of my plants from home and just decorate my entire desk with them cuz I love greenery. So, in my opinion, this is all looking very plain at the moment, but yeah, I mean, hopefully it works. I haven’t tested it out yet. Unfortunately, I do only have one tea bag as of now because I dropped a whole box of them and they went everywhere. Definitely not one of my better moments, but it is what it is. But yeah, it’s still coming together. [Music] I have the horrible feeling that when I gave my boyfriend the keys to my apartment, he did not give them back to me and he just left to go to Manchester 3 hours away. [Music] Insert your payment card. So that was eventful. Basically what had happened was that my boyfriend accidentally took my house keys with him and he was driving 3 hours up north to Manchester and by the time that I realized he was unfortunately an hour out. So yeah, I had to run over real quick to the kitchen and just make friends with one of my neighbors because to be honest like I haven’t actually really met anyone. Like this particular girl, I had met her very briefly the other day and luckily she was in the kitchen. So, I just took her number and she told me that she’d open the door for me when I came back from the shop. I have a cup of vanilla chai with me. I just thought that I give you guys my very first impressions of Oxford because I’ve had a couple of days to settle in here now and I have a lot of opinions. I had actually visited Oxford for the very first time literally just last week. Me and my mother came down and we just spent a day here. You know, we got the keys to this place. It’s kind of funny because when I applied to the University of Oxford, I’d literally never even been to the city. And for a long time, I actually refused to come and visit the city because I felt like I’d be jinxing myself. I did kind of think that if I came and visited the city and I fell in love with it, but then I didn’t actually get into the university, I would just be so upset and so heartbroken. With that being said, though, I found it so overwhelming. I just I don’t even really know how to explain it. I had spent the entire three years of my undergraduate degree like living at home. So I think I just all of a sudden got hit with this realization that I was moving to a completely different city 3 and a half hours away from you know my parents or my family is and I was going to be living alone alone alone alone for the first time ever. And even though I don’t regret spending my undergraduate years at home, most people experienced living alone and stuff when they were 18 and I’m 21 now. So I just felt very behind in that sense and it was just overwhelming. Town was so busy the first time that I went. I don’t know. I It’s just it was just overwhelming. That is genuinely the best way to describe it. Now that I’ve been here for a couple of days, I do feel a lot better. I feel more settled in now that, you know, I’ve kind of decorated my room. I’ve made it more my own. I do feel much more comfortable, which is great. But it’s just it’s still a big change. Part of the reason why I wanted to make this channel is to just kind of document these well the I want I was going to say these years, but it’s actually just one year in Oxford. This is something that I’ve dreamed of a very long time and I’m so excited to be here. But yeah, I’ll see you guys tomorrow. It has been a semi-productive morning this morning. I did some of my consultancy work this morning. I just made a list basically of organizations that I need to contact. I made a template as well which I sent off to my supervisor. cuz I’m waiting for him to reply. But then I spent I swear I spent like an hour and a half doing this um Chinese like placement test. I had to do like listening, reading, I had to write as well. I spent so long doing the like the speaking parts. I was doing it from like the top of my head. [Music] I’m going to be very curious as to what level they please me at. I swear I feel like I sound so rusty. Is that a joke? To be fair, I did all right on the listening. There’s the writing which I don’t know. We have pulled up to Henry V8’s McDonald’s chew castle flavor with it. [Music] Okay. Nothing. Cool. Nothing. Yay. What did I get? Nothing. Nothing. Yeah, they’re nothing. Sometimes you get free food. Oh, yay. You got free small fries or a veg bag. Whoa. In next [Music] one. [Music] Last time me and my mom came to Oxford, there was this really cute market. It was called the Glossera Green Outdoor Market. So, I’m going to head over there now and see if there’s anything interesting going on. [Music] To be honest, there are a lot more stores like when me and my mom went on Saturday and even then it’s all food, jewelry, and vintage things. So, it’s like it’s not that interesting to be honest. [Music] So, it’s currently 7:52 in the evening and a couple of days ago, I got it in my mind that I really want a new bike cuz even though I technically have one at home, I left it at home cuz there was no space in the car to take to Oxford. I’ve been eyeing up Pendleton bikes for a really long time and I managed to find one for a really good price. The lady selling it said that there’s no rust or anything. So, I’m really hoping that it is in good condition because she’s selling it for 65 and these bikes typically go for 150 minimum used. Brand new. They’re like £400. So, fingers crossed. So, we’ve collected the bike. Um, but we ran into some technical issues because it was too big. I thought, hey, it’s going to fit easily into a Range Rover, but nope. I had to take the wheel off. Well, no, rather. The lady that was selling it had to get her neighbor to come and bring the tools to take this wheel off. But there it is, trials and tribulations. So, I’m in the library right now and don’t worry, I’m all alone. I’m not disturbing anybody. But I thought I’d tell you guys about my job interview that I had this morning. Basically, I applied to this program associate like research position and to be honest, I thought that it was very well matched to my personal skill set and my set of experiences. When I joined the interview, the man that was leading it told me that they thought that I’d be better suited to the operations role. And I’m not going to go into details about the responsibilities, but I kind of left the interview not really knowing what to do because I thought that it went very well and it’s a very well-paying job. However, it’s 20 hours per week. But if you know anything about Oxford, then you know that they don’t really like you taking on part-time work simply because they want you to put all of your time and effort into your studies. And I completely understand that. But I’m finding that Oxford is a pretty expensive city to live in. So, I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t a little bit concerned about how I was just going to fund my life here. That was part of why I applied to the position in the first place. But things got even more confusing when my supervisor for my old job offered me to work on a different project. But because it’s less hours, I’m getting paid significantly less and it’s only for 3 months until December, not for a whole year. So, I really didn’t know what to do because at the same time, even though the first job offered a lot of money and a lot of hours, I really didn’t want to jeopardize my studies. And when I considered my other commitments, I’m also the lead editor for a youthled journal and obviously I want to be consistent on YouTube and do well in my studies. So that is something that you know I kind of had an internal debate about. But then I spoke to my dad and he said because the first job isn’t really aligned with the kind of work that I want to do. You know the money isn’t really worth it and because it’s so many hours every week, it doesn’t really make sense to jeopardize my studies for that. So, for that reason, I did contact the person I had an interview with, and I told him that unless they can offer me the research position, I don’t think I’ll be moving forward with them. So, I’m going to wait and see what he says. Maybe they’ll offer me the research position. I don’t know. But worst case scenario, I can just go to the job that my supervisor is offering me, which is still a pretty good option. Like, it still gives me some sort of income for 3 months, which, you know, it’s not a long time. It doesn’t cover the whole duration of my course, but at least it’ll see me for until Christmas. I just wanted to tell you guys a little bit about that because I feel like a lot of people have questions about taking on employment alongside their studies at Oxford because it is so expensive. I literally I got my invoice today. It was £23,000. Had I stayed at my alma m at Lancaster University, it would have cost me £9,000 to do a masters and at Oxford it’s cost me £23,000. So it’s a huge difference but it’s one that I perceive to be worth paying for. But yeah, apart from that, I’m going to bring this vlog to a close. Please like and subscribe because I’m going to try my hardest to do weekly vlogs whilst I’m living here in Oxford and I’m going to be showing you guys all about my life, my studies, just what it’s like to be here. If you enjoyed, please leave a comment. Let me know that you enjoyed and I’ll see you in the next vlog. Bye-bye.