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Speaker 2 \| 00:00 The webinar will begin shortly. Please remain on the line. The webinar will begin shortly. Please remain on the line. The webinar will begin shortly, please remain on the line. The broadcast is now starting, all attendees are in listen only mode. Speaker 3 \| 02:01 Cura everyone,...
Speaker 2 \| 00:00 The webinar will begin shortly. Please remain on the line. The webinar will begin shortly. Please remain on the line. The webinar will begin shortly, please remain on the line. The broadcast is now starting, all attendees are in listen only mode. Speaker 3 \| 02:01 Cura everyone, and a very good afternoon from Altiora, New Zealand. It's great to have you all here today for our pre arrival information session. For those of you joining us, very so very soon for our B trimester intake starting in July. So my name is Simon, and is my colleague Alissa. We will start with intros shortly, but what we're going to do is just wait another one or two minutes to allow others to join, and then we'll start with a nice welcome video before we get started on today's session. So welcome again. It's great to see so many of you, and we'll get started shortly. Let's give it. Maybe just try one more minute. I can see the number still creeping up. All right, I think what we'll do is, because we've got quite a lot to cover in this session, we'll get started. And don't worry, it is being recorded now. So yeah. You'll be able to receive this recording and sent to you by email tomorrow as well, so don't worry if you're going to be joining slightly late. So for those who have just joined the last minutes. A very warm welcome to this University of Waikato pre arrival information session for our B trimester. I can't believe it's already now the middle of June. And I'm sure you're all now quite excited and starting to pack. And all the other preparations that you will have for relocating to New Zealand. So just briefly starting. So my name is Simon Duffy. You might have seen me in a few of the other webinars if you've attended during your journey to joining us. And I work in the international office supporting our new international students as they start their journey to joining us. And that's actually a good segue. I'm now joining my colleague Alyssa, and she can tell you exactly what she does. Speaker 2 \| 04:58 Korakoto hello everybody. Now my Harimai to our welcome to our Prey Arrival session. As Simon mentioned, my name is Alissa Wol. Thank you. And I am from our International Student Services office. And I'm our international student services manager. So it is a warm welcome to you all. We are definitely getting excited to have you come to campus. We are in that time right now. Like Simon said, it's already at the beginning of June. We're about a month away from the start date, but we are in the final wrap ups of our current a trimester students as well. So it's definitely a full on time for us and in what we're doing to support students. But we're definitely excited to be welcoming you all in a very short time frame. So again, I echo that hope your preparations are going well and we'll cover some of that in more depth today. What to set better expectations for your preparations and what to expect pretty much in your first week of campus. On campus with us. I will say here, if there is anybody in this webinar that is actually on our campus already, they might be starting into a new qualification. This session is not for you. You have likely already been to these types of sessions and to our orientation before, so feel free to get on with the rest of your evening. But this session is mainly for those new to campus, new to country, new to qualifications students who will be welcoming in just a month's time frame. Speaker 3 \| 06:24 Brilliant, thanks, Alissa. And so, okay, so we'll get started. We've got a nice sort of welcome video that we'll play for you now, and then we'll come back before I'll hand it over to Ellissa for today's presentation. So we'll just start with our welcome video. It's just loading. Speaker 4 \| 06:58 Got out of a kig of a car. Or two to win in 02 to 11o2 fo mamati mo. Nan you may article what there are A N. No my picking my I got to ty co mania to kick it up. Now my get to Friwana waka. Now my Io o ramara a rara the takita and neo quickly meona kar he me on a ka he 41. I'm a wake how am I met me a corner here the poor nogamudo tinaudo oomano hariatura hayatura you hogar too naamanakagawa deaku who do you know deark. Speaker 3 \| 08:30 Okay my to make you present it now alissa. Speaker 2 \| 08:34 Perfect and that will give me sharing ability right? Yes, perfect. Okay, let me just get this window don't have it in Chrome window so I mean it's not actually pulling up the option for me to share a PowerPoint C window and screen. Sorry about this. Technical difficulty maybe? Speaker 3 \| 09:13 Is that the different window to what you were using yesterday? Speaker 2 \| 09:18 It was okay. Let me sorry for it is quick tical difficulty. Let me attempt to upload this to our tab. But I will as I do this, I will mention, what Kottaki or Taki Turner was doing there. He was welcoming you to our university. Well, sorry, let me start backwards. That was a that all of that was in Tao, Maori, the indigenous language of Mali in New Zealand. And what he was doing was welcoming you to the land, welcoming you to the region of Wakato, welcoming you onto the land of Wakato. Taiui, who the university has a relationship with. He was welcoming you to the. So the region and Hamilton and Wakato, but to the university. So he mentioned Neil quickly there, who is our vice chancellor of the universities. But he was welcoming you on his behalf. He was welcoming you to a Murai, which that was the space that the video was going around. So a lot of that sense of warm welcome and hospitality, you will likely find that here in, once you arrive from the very get go from the airport, even maybe if you take an airline that is Air New Zealand, for example, you will see a lot of this sense of welcome and care. As a person coming to New Zealand, so generally we are very welcoming people and we are excited to have you here. While I'm still working on this, I will give a little bit of background about myself. As you might be able to hear, I am do not have a New Zealand accent. I have an accent from North America as I am from the United States of America and so with that in mind, I am was an immigrant here, but I was a student here, so I was an exchange ticket to our university. Many years ago, and I'm very grateful to be back in the capacity of working with students, international students to our university. So it is a great pleasure to be able to be before you today and share what we do to support you. So I've just got this uploaded so hopefully this will allow me to share my screen now. Perfect. Okay, now I know. For next time. All right. Speaker 3 \| 11:50 Here I think everyone is used to a bit of technical difficulties. It is sort it's the 21st century. I'm sure many people it makes us human. Speaker 2 \| 12:00 Yes. Speaker 3 \| 12:02 Yes, we can see your screen. Perfect. Speaker 2 \| 12:04 Perfect. Okay, let me just dismiss that message, okay? Speaker 3 \| 12:09 However. Speaker 2 \| 12:10 Just to make sure that I can if I changed tab on this side, you can still see it, right? Speaker 3 \| 12:16 Yes, I can, yeah. Speaker 2 \| 12:18 On that one. Okay, cool. So again, Koa he, my welcome and warm welcome to our university. And we hope you're very excited. And I know there's some of you in this session that might have intended to start earlier in the year and may not have been able to or maybe in a previous intake. So we are definitely excited to be welcoming you finally to our shores. Hopefully everything goes well in the visa area as well. So what we're going to cover today is a few different things here. But really that sense of some logistics. This is an introduction information. We will be reiterating it at orientation. And I'll give you those dates as well as a part of today's session. But really thinking about what are some of the more immediate next steps and things to consider as well as that sense of kind of preparation for the first week of orientation and onwards. So as I mentioned, I'm coming from the International Student Services team, and I am more recently in this position as a manager, and my team is growing and we're in a sense of transition right now. So those Legos that you see on the screen there, that was a representation of my team. But we are going through some changes right now. But for the most part, you are likely going to be working with us as international student advisors to support you in your time here. I do want to make mention that we are international student services are different than the international office. The International office has supported you through your preparation of application. It perhaps program selection. Things like this. Once you come onto our campus, you are then working with my office. International student services are here to support you through your time frame as a student here and whether that be in the short term, if it's a year long program or if you're undertaking a longer term program, we are your sense of general support. And so that's one of the main aspects that we do to support our students is that support and pastoral care of international students to our university. Other areas that we do to support you in the realm of medical and travel insurance. Will cover this a little bit more in depth as to what that is and what it covers, but that falls kind of within our jurisdiction as an international student services team. As well as visa immigration information compliance and things along those lines. We'll cover some visa related information today as well. But another big thing that my team does is international orientations and events. So you'll be seeing us many times, hopefully throughout your studies with us, but specifically at orientation. Now I'm feel free again to take photos of these things, but at the same time we will be sending out the recording. But this email address international support is how you would contact us. But for the time being, you are still liaising with the international office International at Wakutzl at the email address for your kind of preparations forcoming. Okay, so we will move into student visas and insurance. I should mention because I have here this background is in our total on the campus. So we do have the two campuses. My team is located on the Hamilton campus. There is support on the Totala campus, there is administrators and staff there, but my team specifically is on the Hamilton campus. So there's a total of student that might need our support. That might look like a video call or a phone call, or if you come to our campus or if we're on the other campus, then we might meet with you. So your student vis. Hopefully many of you have already received your visa or approved of principals or things along those lines, or maybe others are anxiously awaiting that. But you will need a student visa or a visa that is valid to study here in New Zealand, and you must hold a valid visa throughout your period of study sets covering your full length of study. But this might look like needing to renew your visa at a point in time during your study. I'm not going to go into too much depth around that, but the main takeaway is that you will need a valid bset to Inter New Zealand to study with us and you must hold a valid visa throughout your term of study. You must be enrolled as a full time student with us. So an example of this is at an undergraduate level, taking at least three papers per trimester or a minimum of 45 points. A total year typically looks like 120 points for one year of study. Now, master's level can be at different points, it might depend on the type of thesis you might be doing or things like that, but generally you want to max out your point value per term to make sure that you are progressing through your degree. So you need to maintain a full time enrollment. Now you have probably seen through a paper selection process. So there's different types of papers that we offer with those different occurrence or locations. So an important thing is that your visa is dictating which campus of study you can study yet. So if you're at Hamilton campus, you need to be taking Hamilton campus papers. You're on the total on a campus, you need to be taking total on your campus papers. A papers. Now there's another category. Well, there's a few other categories, but at least one other category is any T papers. And these papers are taught solely online. They do not have their asynchronous. Whereas our Hamilton and Totona campus papers require you to be in person and at set lecture times the. That papers are not. You do not want to be taking a full course load of net papers that does not allow you to be at full time enrollment for your in person study. Now, there are other types of modalities of study, like flexi papers that are located on Hamilton and TOT on campus. Those are accessible to you to make you a full time student. They allow flexibility. If you were sick, you could attend virtually in those courses. But the main thing is you need to be taking Hamilton Campus papers for. Hamilton campus and Totona campus for Tota campus papers for. And if it happens to be that you come here and you're like, Wow, I don't exactly what I'm studying. You can change your course of program within limitation, but that is going to impact your student visa. So if it is something that you are considering upon arriving and you want to change your course of program, you would need to apply to change your visa, because your visa again dictates what you can study and where you can study. Okay, well, not too much more on that. As I mentioned, we support in the medical and travel insurance space because this is a requirement for your visa. Because of that secondary point there that international students are not entitled to publicly funded health services in New Zealand. So you do need to be covered by a medical and travel insurance policy. So what we do as the university, we are pre enroll you into an insurance policy and that you might have maybe come across it, maybe not, but on your enrollment agreement, one of the line items on page 3 will say medical and travel insurance, but not too much other detail. And that policy that you are being enrolled into as part of your fees is the student safe inbound university policy. This covers a holistic realm of support both in the medical space as well as travel space. So that's in your term time coming to New Zealand, your travel around New Zealand and your travel back home at the end of your program. So it is quite comprehensive and it covers a lot of different areas. And if you'd like to learn about the policy information, you can just do a quick Google search students safe inbound university policy new Zealand and that will take you to some policy. Now, I'm not going to go into depth into any of these points. You can take a look here. But like I said, it is quite comprehensive. But I do want to cover a few things here. Emergency dentistry and glasses and personal effects. So these areas do have a cap in how much is covered and have very specific wording around what is covered. So if it happens to be that something happens in regards to, say, your dental health, that may only be covered up to \$500 a year per annum. So this leads me to budgeting and the importance of having some additional funds available for emergency costs that might come up out of nowhere and needing to support you in that time frame where you're needing some medical or dental help. Another piece that I want to highlight here is that last tip that's on here. So preexisting conditions. The insurance policy does not automatically cover preexisting condition. This is something that you are already medically managing or have already been diagnosed with in your home country. They are not automatically approved. And so this is where I want you to consider what that looks like when you come here. So that way you're best prepared for your medical management. If you do are already medically manage a preexisting condition, you do need to seek coverage for this before arriving in New Zealand. So again, googling student safe insurance policy New Zealand and inbound university policy. In there we'll have a form for a preexisting cover request form. It is important to do this before you arrive, so that way you know whether or not this is going to be covered as part of the insurance policy. If it is fantastic, then we can set up some other supports. And once you arrive with our student health team, for example, or other local medical practitioners in the area that might be able to support your medical needs. If not, this will help you to know in regards to budget, what is that looking like to res to have access to your medication that you might need here or other types of medical management that you might need. So this is quite an important one for people who do medically manage a condition already. Okay, so we're gonna transition now to. So we move from student visas, that quite important information but a bit dry information, into medical and caring for you prior to coming and those preparations and once you are here. But another important piece is your housing. You need to have a house over your head and it's important that you have this sort of before you arrive in New Zealand in as much as you can, because if you get here and you don't have a place to stay, that is really disorienting. So it's important to get this sorted as much as you can before you arrive, and there's definitely a few different options to consider. Now, probably a fair few of you are on have already applied for on campus accommodation. This, for example, will be our halls of residence. For example, you see in this photo here. College hall, which is one of our on campus accommodations, and it's kind of like a dormitory, set and with individual rooms, but as a self excuse me, as a catered option. But there are self catered options available both in College Hall but other areas of campus as well as our on campus accommodation options. So these are other things to consider. Is your budget around accommodation? Self catered is going to cost a bit more because you're. Excuse me. Is upfront may not look like it costs as much. Because then you have to budget for your food and self catered. Whereas in a catered option, that might look like more expensive, but your food is being prepared for you for multiple times a day throughout the term. Living on campus or near campus is quite crucial as well. If you can, if you are available to do so, because it helps build a sense of camaraderie on campus in a sense of campus community and being as well your transport time and commute time quite low if you're living on campus or in the surrounding areas. Which leads me to the next point of flatting or renting off campus. So this would be for students who are looking for more self catered options. Looking for perhaps a more Kiwi living experience, especially those with families. Flating or renting is going to be your best option. Looking for something that could accommodate your family, as on campus accommodation is not accessible to those that have family members with them. One tip is if you're looking in the flatting or renting off campus options is trade me. And this is a big platform in New Zealand where you can pretty much sell anything by buy many things and things like that. But there's accommodation listed for rentals and a flat mates. So if someone's looking to fill a room in their home, they'll post a posting on Trade Me for Flatmates. Some of the surrounding areas you might want to consider is Hillcrest Silverdale. Sorry, this is Hamilton campus. Hillcrest, Silverdale, Hamilton East areas and then other areas that can be accessed on a bus line. So for example, Chartwell or Fairfield or Hamilton Lake, these types of areas, on the for Totona campus, we do have one on nearby campus, I should say because our tot on your campus is a city campus, it's one building in the city. We have a nearby on campus accommodation called Sellingt Studios, and that is a really fun and new work building and really good, vibe I suppose for students living there. It is self catered. And if you're looking at the surrounding areas to live off campus, that's kind of more the Tats Central Business District and maybe even Popa areas as well. But considering commute times, but another option to consider is a homestay. And this allows you to live amongst a Kiwi family, and that could be a Pakha family, a family of European descent. That could be a Mari family, but that could look like Kiwis. Are more than just a European descendant or boodi descendant. We are a diverse cultural community, so, there's definitely a lot of options within the homestay realm. If you are looking to have a local Kiwi experience, have someone look after you and as well as some of your meals are included in that, this is definitely a good opportunity If you're looking to improve your English language. It is a huge support to be able to go back into an English speaking setting at the end of the day as well to practice and that just that sense of family support or fune supports that you will get in the home state. And I'll just leave this here as well so our accommodation team can be reached. Com at whatsola email address. And there is still some room available in our on campus accommodation, so if you still haven't sorted things out, please reach out to the team. Please submit an application for on campus accommodation if that's suitable for you and your budget. Otherwise, consider other options. But point being, it's helpful to have this sort of before you arrive so it's not so disorienting when you come. Okay, so next up is traveling to and arriving in New Zealand and setting some of those expectations. Drink water. So this is probably what most people are here for is what do I prepare for coming to New Zland? So obviously bringing your electronic goods and mobile phones and staying connected is going to be hugely important as well as being able to submit assignments and do assignments. So bringing your electrical goods and things like this. But important to know is that New Zealand has perhaps a different voltage than your home country, so you may need to bring adapters or maybe purchase something here. But this is probably quite helpful to prepare to make sure that you don't ruin your devices by plugging it into the wrong voltage system. Now, you might have heard about New Zealand's weather and climate, or maybe you haven't. So this might be the first time. But we like to say that we have four seasons in one day, or at least the four seasons are definitely represented here. Our winters, which you'll be coming into. So that might be a bit of a change coming from if you are coming from the northern hemisphere or perhaps warmer areas, you're coming into the wintertime. So that's something to prepare for. We tend to wear lots that you can probably see that I'm wearing a knitted sweater, a knitted jumper. It is it can be quite cold and Hamilton's it doesn't get snowy, but it we get frost, so it does get below 0°C. But it is helpful to plan for multiple seasonal weather. So more so when you're coming in. Have layers. But when you get to the summertime towards the end of the year at the end of your B trimester, it's going to get warmer. And Hamilton specifically tends to be pretty warm and humid, but maybe not depending where as hot and humid as to where you're from, but other people from different areas, it can be a bit of a shock. So, in a sense, prepare for everything. But bringing layers is probably a good idea. I want to encourage you to bring cultural dress. We tend to encourage that quite often here, especially here in international student services. Most recently, we had a cultural parade where students dressed up in their cultural dress and represented their home countries and shared about their cultural dress. So we definitely encourage it. And if you do have cultural dress that you are able to bring with you. Now, money is probably an important consideration. I would typically would recommend about 400 new Zealand in cash. Just to kind of get you started in those initial payments that you might need to be making. But in the long term, to set up a bank account or some other financial management system that allows you to pay and be paid in New Zealand dollars, you can start the process a banking process online with any of our major banks here and then complete that in person once you arrive. But in general, it is going to be extremely helpful to pay and be paid in New Zealand dollars rather than having to constantly convert or have to spend money from overseas and get that converted now. Important documents, whatever that might mean to you. What you might need to be bringing, for example academic documents, previous history about things like that as well as if you have a driver's license and especially a full license from your home country that can ultimately be converted into a New Zealand license through a different processes based on different countries. So definitely helpful to bring those types of important documents. Other realm of important documents is your medical history. Again, around that medical management piece. If you are, you know, managing a diagnosis and condition, you are still probably going to need to do that here. And bringing your prescription information, bringing your medical history is going to be helpful to have those practitioners here be able to support you knowing that medical history. And ideally these things are in English as well. If not, getting them translated would be quite helpful and then a helpful packing list will likely be shared with you. I actually didn't check this with Simon, but if not, I have one that I can send a Simon to send out to everybody. But generally this packing that kind of focuses on typically those living in the halls are residents. So the one that I'm thinking of. But generally it can help anybody looking to come to New Zealand. And I forget. Yes, okay, I did put this in here. Another area of helpful packing lists and preparations is now my in Z & A U & I is a website specifically for international students coming to New Zealand and produced by Education in New Zealand. So very helpful resource. Resources on there. I would recommend going into that in your preparation as well as the Immigration in Z ready checklist. And this is quite helpful because you can make a tailored, personalized to do LIS checklist for your preparation for arrival in New Zealand and just kind of checking off the things that you'll need to prepare for in like, you know, having applied, getting a visa, but then they kind of like lead up to arriving. So definitely recommend those as resources. Okay, next up is traveling to New Zealand. So this is in the mindset that you got your visa, you have your flight booked, and you just took a very long flight to get to New Zealand and then you're disoriented because it's a different time zone. So things to help you prepared for an easy experience through our airports and specifically Auckland Airport is having your valid passport and your visa available when you're going through immigration and customs. We definitely recommend printing out your visa just in case there is they ask to see that and you don't have access to your phone or the WiFi is down or something like this. Having your printed documents is going to be most helpful. So having those in your carry on and available because you're going to need them as soon as possible once you dep plane from your plane. Now another thing. And here in New Zealand, we are, as you probably know, an island nation. And so we do take our biosecurity very seriously because we want to protect our indigenous fauna and flora of here in New Zealand and not introduce any foreign pathogens or things like that could really harm our plant life and animal life. So we do take biosecurity very seriously. And at the end of this presentation, we will be watching a video about what to expect at the bioseurity screening station and things along those lines. But please know that even though. Sorry. I should say with that there is a declaration process of what you're bringing into the country. But even though you may declare these items, you still may not be able to bring them into the country because they may pose too much of a risk. Even though in your mind it's like it's just honey or it's just a piece of wood or something like that. We do take it very seriously. So to that point, some of the big nose of what not to bring into New Zealand is honey, dried meats and fresh fruits. These things tend to be higher risk and oftentimes are not eligible to be brought in. And if you don't declare them or other types of things that might be poses risks and you're found with them, that's an automatic \$400 fine. So that's why I recommend bringing at least \$400 in cash. Just in case something were to happen. But how you declare this is through the INSA declaration form or, excuse me, Traveler declaration form. And this is now a digital document. There are paper documents at the airport or perhaps on your plane that might be issued out. But you can do this traveler declaration before your flight. Just go on to the website. There's an app for it. It maybe takes about 10 minutes to complete, and then you're ready to go. But you will need to have the kind of confirmation email to show as a part of your, immigration process at the, excuse me, At the. At the airport. And I think that link will be shared in the chat as well for the declaration form. All right, so what's next? So you made it through customs, you made it to you got through to the airport, and now you are in the arrival hole. What happens? So there's a few things that can happen. So before I get to this, we do offer a complementary airport pickup service via a shuttle service. But there are some things you need to know in order to be eligible for this. And no, it's not via, a hot air balloon. It is a shuttle that will take you to campus, whether that's tot ona campus or our Hamilton campus. So these are three things that you need to meet before you can fill out the arrival form. First being that your visa has been issued. Next is knowing your accommodation address. So parking back to. You need to know where you're staying and starting that career to coming and you need to know your flight details and specifically your arrival, like your flight numbers and the arrival time in New Zealand and the date. But you need to submit this at least, and I emphasize this so much, at least seven days before you arrive in New Zealand. Okay? Seven days before you arrive, you submit this after the case. We are not going to be able to book a shuttle for you if there's too much. It's too short of a time frame for us. So if you already meet those three criteria above, get your arrival form in. So that way we can book work on that process. To book in a shuttle for you. Otherwise, there are options for a few books with a shuttle service. And that would be the case as well if you are arriving with family. So we cannot accommodate those arriving with family. This would only be for students arriving themselves. So in the case of students who might be coming with family, that is fine. You will just need to book with a shuttle service directly, or perhaps using one of our bus services called Interscity as an option to purchase tickets. And if it suits your travel time frame. And taking an intercity bus. But I would say a shuttle is definitely most direct to get to where you're needing to go. And just so you know, the kind of time frame between Auckland and Hamilton is about an hour and 45 on a given date. Could be up to two hours, depending. And then from Auckland to Toona. I don't know if I actually know that, but it's probably something similar. So just take that into consideration. When you look at New Zealand, everything does kind of look close. It is a smallish island, but it is quite spread out. Our population is quite spread out, and our road conditions are. They vary at times. Anyway, I'm get too much of that. Okay, and this is only for students who are new to New Zealand. So if you happen to be a returning student to our university, well, welcome back. But the service is only for new to New Zealand students, so consider that as part of your preparations as well. All right, so you made it to campus. Now what? What are we doing next? First and foremost, you have sanctions on your account or warnings, right? You probably have seen them and you're like, well, how do I get rid of them? You can't yet, unfortunately. That is, once you come to campus. And this allows us to know that you've actually arrived on our campuses. So what you are going to do is bring your visa so that e visa you are printing out hopefully and your passport and perhaps some academic documents if that's required as well. And how do you know they're required? Well, they would either be in those warnings on your My what? Cutzel Qualification and papers tab, or in your offer letter from the university saying we need an updated transcript. Or. We need, you know, proof of your prior study, whatever it might be. So please make note of those things and have them ready during orientation week to bring to our student center or to bring to the Hub in Tota on Toama campus. So that way we can validate those documents and remove those sanctions from your account. Then allowing you to enroll fully into your papers and into your qualification, which goes to this last point on the page. Please bring with you know, a phone, your laptop. Bring that with you when you come to enroll because we will ask you to complete enrollment on a device. So it will be quite helpful for you to bring that with you along with your other documents. So that way we can get to that final stage and have you actually enroll with us because you do need to be an enrolled student in order to have access to our services. Like our student wife, I like after hours access to buildings and rooms. And you're staying on campus. To your rooms and the WiFi there. So it is quite helpful that the last step is getting you enrolled. But we do need to go through that process first of validating your documents at one of our centers. All right, hopefully this is all making sense. I'm not going to too quickly. And now we can get into the fun stuff. So. So in the next couple of slides, this is going to be QR code heavy and Instagram heavy, so I'm sorry if there are some of you that don't use Instagram. It's just the easiest way to be able to share things without having them be links and that you can get that information more quickly. So these two QR codes listed here are specific to my office and THENATIONAL Student Services office. So we do more than just orientations, we do more than just medical and travel insurance and visa information. We do trips and events for international students. As you can probably tell, they're quite hot commodities and students sign up very quickly. Those spots go very quickly for your events and trips. So this is where I would ask that you follow along on our social media because this is where we announce events and trips and sign ups for them. Now, some cost money and some do not. Typically our on campus events are just ways to hang out with other international students and get to know each other a bit more. Whereas we offer options to go to Hobbitton for example, which is a regional delicacy I suppose for those that are Lord of the Rings or Hobbit the Hobbit fans as well as other really cool opportunities like going to the Hamilton Zoo or to some other areas in the region. So definitely would recommend following along. And you can share things with us too, about your experience on campus, of like taking beautiful photos of campus and things like that. And for those preparing to come, we have a few highlights on our Instagram of just kind of things that we've gotten up to over the last years as well as some campus not tours, but in the sense of seeing campus through a student perspective. So I would recommend taking a look at those highlights. And if you did have some questions. And we have our TAP ambassadors talking with a current international student, which you can find links to that in, on our Instagram and Facebook, too. Okay, so other ways to get involved on campus. And this is really thinking about within your first week here, orientation week, as well as in your first couple of weeks on campus. So what co students union. This is the student union on campus. This is your voice on campus. They offer lots of different types of events, a lot of that being social events and social specific. So for example, during orientation week, there's going to be a week which is WS use orientation week. And it's more social than it is academic. But I'd highly recommend getting involved because that's an opportunity to get to know not only new students like yourselves, but to get to know returning students that are already have already been here. And we do have two separate Instagram accounts, one for the Hamilton campus and one for Totona. Campus is represented on both campuses, but they offer other things like peer support program events that they might be doing. Sometimes they have giveaways for a different involvement in things. So yeah, really cool stuff that they do. And all of that is student led, as well as other initiatives like class representation if you wanted to be a leader within your class. Now, another really cool way to be involved is the WU Wellbeing Hub. Culture University Wellbeing Hub. This is a it's a really great space on campus. It's a space that you do not need to be a student, you don't need to perform as a student. It's a hangout space. There's a lot of cool activities that are happening there, but really promoting that sense of well being because we know that you're more than just a student and you get stressed out as well because you're a human. So the well being has a really awesome space, and there's a lot of really cool events that are, that the team there does. And they are recently promoting a first year experience so. And kind of a mentorship program. So take a look at that if that's something you'd be interested in. They have recently posted about that. But the well Being Hub is definitely a cool place to be. I will say too, even though I'm promoting these as Instagram, these are on Facebook as well. Now the last one that I want to highlight, and this is definitely not the end. There'll be of ways to get involved on campus. I should say sorry with WSU There's student clubs through WSU, and they highlight a lot of those on their social media. But these are ways that you can be involved on campus and kind of find those clubs, cultural clubs, religious clubs, academic clubs, all the above all that being student led. So the other one, last one I want to mention is the Employability Plus program or excuse me, Employability Plus award run by our careers and employability team. So it's a volunteering program and it's a way to connect to the local communities here in Hamilton or in Toroona. So I highly recommend getting involved with that and the way to connect to that wider community that you're coming to. And it helps build your employ ability by networking and connecting and building skills. All right, now we're going to get into something a little bit of fun here as compared to just so some information. So this is a sense of kind of to help prepare for the Q lingo, because as you come here, you might find that you may not understand what people are saying. The Kiwi dialect incorporates a lot of different things, including today. Omori. As we heard from Koroski at the very beginning, as well as just some slang that you might not have heard of before. So I'll do my best to try and translate as best as I can for some of these here. So you might have heard, or maybe just know, that we say sweet ass. Sweet ass. So what does that mean? You're like, well, sweet as what? Sweet as honey, sweetest sugar. No, it's just sweet as. And what that means is, yep, cool, okay, sounds good. That type of media. Now, you might hear people say, all right, bra. Or he a mate, or thinks mate. This is just a way, even if you're not a bro, this is just a way to acknowledge that sense of camaraderie. Or a friend. Or really just. You know. Like expressing, a way to say, I don't know, just acknowledging somebody that you are wanting to connect with. All right, this one's gets some students because we have Yaenna and na yeah. And you hear this quite often. Yeah na yeah, okay. So yeah na means yes, no, it's kind of an indecisive, but it typically means yeah, but if or nah. It can be a bit hard to understand at times. So it's more contextual. But yeah, it means more so in the no realm. Whereas a na yeah typically means yes, but you have to kind of experience it to know the context that someone is bringing that for and I at the end of a sentence or a the of this typically ends a sentence, and it typically means something like it's an acknowledgment of saying Isn't that correct or Isn't that right? I'm blanking on it on a way to use it right now, but you typically hear at the end of sentences, and it's different than the Canadian way it's used. If you if you've ever heard that used in a Canadian English dialect. This is more of my phrasing. She'll be right. And what does that mean? Well, it's a general indicator that something might be a little bit risky, but it'll be okay, we'll make it through, She'll be right. And someone says choice and typically the a head nod up. Choice is something that's really good. It's the best that it could be an expression of something is great and good and similarly to this is something that's mean. So it's mean. It's a sense of that is. That's pretty good. That that's feeling really good. It makes sense. Maybe it can be an expression of someone doing very well on, say, an assignment. Yeah, mean so a dairy or the term dairy is not specifically to dairy products. This is what we call a convenience store here. It's a place that you can go. It's typically a corner store where you can get different foods, packaged foods. You can pick up a gallon or not a gallon. Sorry, my US is a leader of milk. You can pick up flour and sugar, and you can pick up, you know, chocolate and biscuits. Anyway, it's a convenience store. A place that is typically in pretty much every neighborhood. This is another phrasing that is used quite often, and it's called bring a plate. Now, that does not mean bring an empty plate to where you're going. And this is that pulling on that sense of welcomeness and hospitality. Here in New Zealand we tend to have shared dinners or shared lunches, things like this. But when we say bring a plate, we mean bring a plate with food on it to share with others. Togs. These are your swimming clothes. So whether that you call that awim suit a swimming costume, whatever that might be in your own language, this is your swim clothing. And lastly, jandles. These are typically any name for sandal, but the ones that go between your toes. That might have different terms in your language or in your country, but these are the types of sandals that you would wear. And you see them quite a lot in the summertime. Okay, we're getting to the last, very last pieces here. And, I'm not going to derite this too much because you'll hear much more about this during orientation, but I do want to acknowledge that. I said that we are on our Hamilton campus and we are located in this building here called Temanawa, the student center, which is our library. And the library team does really cool stuff, so I highly recommend following along with them as well. On social media, they run different prizes. They have different book displays for different things that might be happening. So for example, we have a lot of Pacific Language we recognitions and throughout the year. And they create displays for that or other things that might be happening in the local community or international days, different things like this. So the library team does really cool stuff, and they have different prizes and giveaways, and they do stuff during orientation, so definitely recommend following along with them too. Okay, this gets me pretty much through the end here. These are quite important pieces to note. So take a photo. Put it in your. Your diaries, your calendar schedules. But orientation week starts the first of July. Okay, so we are already under a month. Next, a compulsory session is on the 3rd of July. This is an international student orientation specific to all new international students. And you'll find the details here. But more information will come out to you in due course about the location and the timing and things like this. But note that it is a compulsory session for all new international students. The start of classes is then a week later, after orientation week, which is the 8th of July, that Monday, and that's when your lectures and courses actually start. Now, an important thing to know is the change of enrollment time frame. That is, from now until the second week of classes. This is a time frame where you can change courses. If you needed to swap things around or maybe in your timetable there was a two hour overlap, you needed to make some changes to your core schedule. You can do so from this very point in time up until the second week of classes, but we do recommend doing so within the first week of classes or during orientation week, as you will likely miss quite a lot of information if you are SW swapping classes into the second week. It's doable to catch up, but we recommend doing all of those course changes, at least in the first week of classes. Okay, which leads me to the last piece here is, you know, not everybody, and I'm hoping that everybody will get here by in time for orientation week. But we know that doesn't happen for some students. So we do want to list the last dates to enroll, arrive and enroll on campus. So for anyone in an education qualification, that's going to be the 15th of July, okay? For everybody else, that's the 22nd of July. This is quite crucial because if you are not able to make it by this time frame, then other process need to take place to likely defer you to another term or coming up with other options at that point. So please take note of that. But again, we want you here by the first week of July if at all possible. Okay, so that gets us to the end here. So matte waa, this is we say see you later or goodbye. And I'm wishing you very safe travels on your journey here to Alton. I'll bring that to. Speaker 3 \| 54:19 Thanks, Alissa. You've got quite a few good, like funny laughing emojis with the kiwi sayings, so I think you provided some entertainment there, so that's great. Thank you. And bru. Okay, so obviously we've got a few more minutes, before the webinar concludes today. So obviously some great slides and a lot of information that Alyssa has shared. And obviously, this has been recorded. You will receive it because you might want to get some more information. You know, to refer to it as time goes on. But there are some questions I've come through. What I'll just do is if you send anything quite application specific. I have me and my colleagues in the international office, and we will get back to you individually on those. So it's more about what Alissa has been covering today. So just kind of go over a few questions here that you've actually been very thorough. So a lot of these older questions I think have been answered. Alyssa so have a look at this one. Not sure whether this would be probably referred to the accommodation team, but around payments, can the pay of what can the payments for the accommodation be? Can it be done before the visa or does the bond have to be done before they move in? Speaker 2 \| 55:35 Have a question. I would say I'm going to defer. That's accommodation. But to my knowledge, you can pay prior to, receiving your visa, but you will need to tell the team whether or not you're coming, if you do receive your visa or not. So that way they can prepare room or not prepare a room for you. Speaker 3 \| 55:56 Brim okay, I have some questions around. I think we talk about biosecurity. So I think what we'll do is I didn't we've got time unfortunately to show the video, but what we can do with that. Obviously. They are available on YouTube and on the New Zealand Government biosecurity website as wellc your own KA pack and unopened honey. And I think that'll be a big no for New Zealand. Yeah, brilliant. So. Speaker 2 \| 56:27 What' say we do have pretty good honey here? Speaker 3 \| 56:31 Yes, Manua honey, Atom today. Right, okay, let's have a look, what else do we have? Right, okay, yes, so around those latest dates, I thought these were going to come through, so if the visas are late, can we start online? And who can help us choose the papers and understand which papers can be attended virtually or in campus? Speaker 2 \| 56:57 Yes, a good question. So there is the possibility of starting online. It does depend on the qualification and the paper option. So what you want to look for is a paper that has flexi mode, because that, like I mentioned, has flexibility and is typically recorded or broadcasted at the same time the lecture is happening. If you do have some questions around this, the international office International Awa Culto is probably your best point of contact at this time to request that type of support. Speaker 3 \| 57:29 And just to follow on then for Melissa. And so starting online, obviously as the slides mentioned, you know, if we really encourage you to arrive in time for orientation if because of the visa situation, you might have to arrive a week or maximum to two weeks depending on your qualification. And then we will be sending you those targeted emails. So keep an eye on your inbox. Over the next couple of weeks you will be receiving a lot of very important updates from us on what you need to be doing. And if you do start online, it's really important that you are, you know, you're engaging with your division, with your faculty and your academics. And we'll obviously be here in the international office to support you with that. But yes. So there are certain not all programs can you start online and. But we can provide that the website will be updated as well to show which degrees, which programs you can start, and that should be updated, I think, within the next week or so. Again, we'll be updating via email as well. So yeah. So please reach out. Out. Obviously international. That's a good email address for us to use, but just to keep an eye on that. But there's a lot of questions around the start dates here. Just, the does the university offer free SIM card for international students? Speaker 2 \| 58:45 Yeah, great question. So upon your arrival to the campus, when you bring your documents and for validation and verification, you will receive a welcome pack and in that welcome pack has a SIM card in it. It is only loaded with data though 100mb to allow you to set up a plan for the longer term. Now it is a specific phone provider here in New Zealand. You are not required to use it. You could choose to get a SIM card at the airport upon your arrival so you have a little bit more data to work with or a plan, but typically those are geared more so to tourists, whereas you're probably going to be here for the longer term. So in any case, yes, you will have access to a free SIM card, but that is once you arrive to campus and bring your documents in for ver verification. Speaker 3 \| 59:29 Brilliant. Are vaccinations included in the insurance? Speaker 2 \| 59:35 Great question. Some are and some are not. It does depend on the type and things along those lines. I would say typically no, but they might be at minimal cost. That is where our student health center can assist with that. Depending on, you know, your medical need. And what might you. You might be needing. So I can't say definitively, but I would say maybe be prepared to pay out of pocket for those real things. Speaker 3 \| 59:59 And many of you would have seen I did put in the chat function for everyone a link when Lisa was talking about the airport pickup the arrival form. So hopefully you can all go to the chat function if you haven't already done so. Just one related to that, when would I be able to get confirmation of my airport pickup request? Speaker 2 \| 01:00:18 Yeah, great point. So once you submit, you will likely receive an email from my colleague Jessica about the that we have received and we sent this off to our travel provider. Then we will continue to email you once we have the itinerary and we'll send that to you. Now that seven day time permit is a requirement because sometimes it takes quite some time for us to get those itineraries back, and sometimes you might get that itinerary while you're already traveling. So just note that. But if we have confirmed that we are booking for you will receive an itinerary for your shuttle pickup and more details will be in those emails from Brilliant. Speaker 3 \| 01:00:55 Just one. I will not be able to attend the orientation on the third of July. Is there a second orientation available? Speaker 2 \| 01:01:03 Yeah, good question. So we do tend to run late orientations for students. Because we know that not everybody can be here, but we do want you to try and attempt to be here by that orientation week. So for those that aren't able to attend, we do have a list of that and we send out further communication to let you know when the next late orientation will be, and that's typically within the first or second week of term. Speaker 3 \| 01:01:28 Brilliant. I think we have. I'm just there's been lots of questions, but I think guys, we've. And well, not me, Alyssa has answered most of them, so let me just. I just want double check. It is turned five, so we'll have to wrap this up shortly. So, yes, have a look. Lot of part emojis. Speaker 2 \| 01:01:52 So I love all the engagement. Thank you, everybody. Speaker 3 \| 01:01:58 And can I bring well, it's both in customs, Can I bring processed foods like frozenin perhaps? Feliks Sh \| 01:02:04 No. Speaker 2 \| 01:02:06 I would defer that question to what can I bring in or out of New Zealand? On the Ministry of Primary Industry websites. But really, just do a Google search what can I bring into New Zealand? And that will take you to the proper websites, specifically government website. Speaker 3 \| 01:02:22 Brilliant. Okay, all right, guys. I think what we'll do is we will just wrap it up there. I know a lot of questions have come through. I'm hoping that we've managed to answer quite a lot of them. Everything's been saved and recorded. So what I'll do is me and my team and then any of that I can pass on to Ellissa. Feliks Sh \| 01:02:38 He. Speaker 3 \| 01:02:39 We will get back to you. Don't worry. But, you know, it's great to see the enthusiasm and all the questions coming through. So we will just wrap things up here now. So I just want to just take the time. First of all, thanking Alissa to join and give that really comprehensive presentation. Feliks Sh \| 01:02:52 I fish TOS. Speaker 3 \| 01:02:56 She's a great advocate, and she's looking forward to, I'm sure, seeing you all in campus. And you will see, around. She's very much involved in all the activities. So yeah, you will bump into it. So I'm sure I myself as well will be on campus. So you can feel free to come and say hi. It's always nice when someone comes up and says, I saw you in the webinar. So, you know, please do that, but. And we'll leave it there and safe travels. You will receive a copy of the recording in your email. Any other questions we will get back to you, but otherwise from Elizor and I it's a good evening, good afternoon from us in New Zealand and we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks. Speaker 2 \| 01:03:36 Matea We'll see you soon. Speaker 3 \| 01:03:39 Thanks guys.
