Normal stuffs on orientation was known to be BORING~~ =p
After welcoming speech from Mr Andrew, we headed for our FREE LUNCH~ there was choice of pasta or rice~
Pasta served with some salmon and rice served with chicken chunks~
The Hubs started selling Day Trip Tickets at 12pm if not remembered wrongly...
Xiao Hui and I went to grab our day trip tickets and for Monkey and Yinsin as well~~
We regretted did not make reservation with Ellen and Zen (Tong Hang) from Facebook before coming... they are really nice and friendly, Ellen is pretty!! haha~~ ^^
The difference between trips organised by Hallam Union and Tong Hang were one with pretty colourful original maps and another one with printed or photocopied maps... also, Ellen, Zen or other agent may tell us in details about the place we were going and which are the must-stops... on the other hand, some Hallam Union student guides may have done their homework before guiding us but most of the time they did not speak much about the destination and just giving us the maps to let us discover ourselves... then we might miss a lot of interesting sites at the destinations... =p
Back on The Hubs, there were counters selling different day trip tickets situated in different rooms, we looked for the ones that we were interested, almost ALL though~~ haha!! ^^
We booked with Ellen for 2 York tickets, 2 Bicester Village and 1 MU ticket for myself... these tickets were not booked for Monkey and Yinsin as they were still in Malaysia on the date of the trips or else they needed to work on assignment on the day we were going to Bicester Village...
Other than that, we bought Disney and Cowboy parties tickets, Whitby, Blackpool, Cambridge, Leeds and Cheshire Oaks day trip tickets for 4 of us~~ ^^
The prices and summary for all trips organised by Hallam Union were stated clearly in the small booklet which placed on the desk in our room in hostel...
All trips organised by Hallam Union depart from The Hubs, thus all of us must be at The Hubs 10 min before the departure time... =p
On the other hand, all trips organised by Tong Hang will come to each hostel to pick us up~~ how nice!!! ^^
I did not remembered exactly which day but we have gone for registration of SHU Card a.k.a Student Card, medical and submission of bank draft for the balancing tuition fees...
During the process of registering the SHU Card, photo on the card was taken on the spot...lolx hence there were many complaints after the SHU Card distributed right after the registration had done... =p mine look dumb and noob~~ haha!!
After that, we needed to make appointments with senior residents Ujin for opening bank account~~ there is choice of Natwest or Barclays, Xiao Hui and I chosen Natwest while Monkey and Yinsin opened their accounts with Barclays... ^^
NatWest provided 2 cards of Basic Savings Debit Card and Debit Card... both NatWest cards can be used during shopping and withdrawals while Barclays provided 2 cards as well, yet the Savings card can only be used to withdraw cash in Barclays branches while the Debit Card can be used to withdraw cash in any FREE CASH ATMs... =p
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| SHU Card~~★ |
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| NatWest debit cards~~★ |
