{"id":14678,"date":"2018-03-03T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:30:54","slug":"accommodation-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/03\/03\/accommodation-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Okeford House \u2013 my home away from home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sugandha Bhandari (India)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hi everyone! I am Sugandha\u00a0 Bhandari from India, currently doing my Master\u2019s in Corporate Communication. Three months ago, if anyone would have asked me whether I would consider my student accommodation as home, I would have straight up answered them with a big NO. However, time changes perception!<\/p>\n

Choosing your accommodation is another big step on the journey toward a masters, especially if you are moving from a different country. Last summer, I remember spending most of my time surfing the internet and making a list of pros and cons of all the student halls. Okeford House, located in Winton, is a residence hall that is only for postgraduate students. There are plenty of reasons why I chose Okeford House. Let\u2019s see them in detail!<\/p>\n

Distance! Distance! Distance!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who doesn\u2019t want to live near supermarkets, fast food joints, cafes and a pharmacy? Okeford House has it all. The local pharmacy is just a few steps away, while Waitrose, Lidl, and Wilko are just a two-minute walk. Pizza Hut and several food outlets are nearby, as well as a caf\u00e9 for a lovely cup of tea in the evenings. You might already know that many shops in England close by 4 pm on Sundays, but the Lidl in Winton is open until 8 pm, which is an extra bonus of living in Okeford House. The best part is its proximity to campus! Okeford House is about a 12-minute walk from Talbot campus and when you don\u2019t feel like walking you can always get on the bus\u2026which runs every thirty minutes.<\/p>\n

The perks of sharing a flat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Living alone can be lonely, so I didn\u2019t want to stay in a studio by myself. But I also wanted personal space. I decided to stay in a shared flat where I share a kitchen and living area with my flatmates, yet still get the privacy of my own room. Living in a shared flat has its own perks, you get to meet people not just from different courses but also from diverse cultures.<\/p>\n

Security is key<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okeford House is a very safe place to live. No one can enter unless they have a key, which gives you peace of mind. There is also a fire alarm drill every Wednesday which always keeps you prepared.<\/p>\n

After three months of living here I have already made friends for life and a lifetime worth of amazing memories. Living at Okeford House is both calm and social. In my list of pros and cons Okeford House won! I hope it does it for you as well.<\/p>\n

By Sugandha\u00a0 Bhandari, India, MA in Corporate Communication, 2017\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! I am Sugandha\u00a0 Bhandari from India, currently doing my Master\u2019s in Corporate Communication. Three months ago, if anyone would have asked me whether I would consider my student accommodation as home, I would have straight up answered them with a big NO. However, time changes perception! Choosing your accommodation is another big step… Read more » about Okeford House \u2013 my home away from home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":25799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,336],"tags":[90,1821,1946,2290],"class_list":["post-14678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-blogs-archive","tag-accommodation-2","tag-corporate-communication","tag-india","tag-sugandha-bhandari"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25809,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions\/25809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}