澳洲留学住宿实用攻略

要在留学澳洲，首先得找个地方睡觉、学习和猛吃印尼方便面（Mie Goreng——澳洲大学生的招牌主食）。下面就来说说几种在澳洲常见的住宿方案。

Every university student needs somew here to sleep, study and eat copious amounts of mie goreng(two minute noodles – the staple food of the typical Aussie uni student diet). Here’s a breakdown of the common options in Australia.

大学宿舍（University Housing）

在大多情况下，澳洲大学的宿舍就是几个学生合租一套公寓，具体设置因校而异。在学校宿舍，每个学生都会有独立的卧室，但卫生间、厨房和公共活动空间要共用。要想填饱肚子，要不就自己做着吃，要不就得依赖“麦卡”（Macca’s）了。（注：“麦卡”是澳洲人给麦当劳起的昵称。到这的英国人这会可能就昏头了，他们要找的是自己的快餐门店“Maccy D’s”）每间卧室都是私人空间，门可以反锁，但请注意，如果你的室友邀请一大堆客人回来，放着重金属音乐，声音从纸一样薄的墙传来，即便你因此抓狂学校也管不了什么。因此，宿舍比较适合那些想要快速找到好朋友的学生，而且不介意浴室下水道被别人的头发堵住。不过，宿舍离学校通常仅咫尺之遥，倒是可以省下大笔的交通费用。不过如果你想花巨款买一台“摄位车”（Segway，也称作体感车）做交通工具那就另当别论了。

Although this varies slightly uni to uni, it usually means a complex of shared apartments with a private bedroom for each tenant and shared bathroom, kitchen and living spaces. Tenants need to cook their own meals, or become very familiar with the Macca’s menu*. The bedrooms are private in that they each have a lockable door,but be warned: the university doesn’t guarantee the preservation of your sanitywhile you listen to your roommates entertaining guests and indulging in heavy metal music through the paper thin walls. This set up is ideal for those who are happy to have 3-4 instant, university-appointed best friends to live with and those who don’t mind showers clogged with other people’s hair. Also, they areusually very close to the university, which is grouse unless you were planningto buy a Segway, in which case your daily ride will be cut down significantly.

学院宿舍(University Colleges)

学院是另一种校内住宿方式，也是出了名的派对圣地。除了给学生提供了满满的社交日程之外，这里也是学术中心，有导师和牧师提供各方面的帮助。每座城市最多有四所学院，各个学院不仅在体育活动上竞争激烈，在其它文化活动如戏剧、辩论和志愿者项目上也是对手。虽然大多数学院宿舍提供三餐，但食物质量却并不如人所愿。棕酱（注：一种做咸点、西式浓汤或炖肉的酱汁）是各种各样的肉类调味品，而且餐餐都少不了涂了蔬菜酱的吐司。养宠物是绝对禁止的，不过据说曾有个墨尔本的学生在房间里养了只小兔子，并且只在夜深人静的时候出来溜弯。对于国际学生和来自澳洲其它州的同学来说，学院宿舍和大学宿舍都是人气选择。

Colleges are another form of on-campus living and are known to be party central. But asidefrom this, they are academic centres that offer included tutoring and pastoral support as well as a full social calendar. There are usually upwards of four inevery city that compete fiercely sports and have other cultural activities like plays, debating and volunteering opportunities. At most colleges all meals are provided, although many wish they weren’t as the menu consists of multiple variants of meat in brown sauce, but vegemite toast is always available. Pets are strictly not allowed - but there is a story of a student in Melbourne who kept a rabbit in her room and could be seen walking it on a lead at midnight. Colleges as well as university housing are popular for international and interstate students.

合租房（Share Houses）

有很多学生选择在大学附近合租一栋房子，然后分摊做饭和打扫卫生的活儿。这些大房子是著名的派对根据地，也因此成为了房东的噩梦——这里经常会出现楼梯扶手连续三个月被莫名其妙地弄坏的情况，足以想见房客玩得有多疯狂！

Many students rent a house near the university and share the rent, cooking and cleaning duties. These are notorious for huge parties and being nightmares for the landlords when the banister is unexplainably broken three months in a row by a raucous game the tenants have invented.

寄宿家庭（Home Stays）--这也是初来乍到留学生的首选，小编专门推过关于homestay的那些故事，大家可以查看历史消息~

简单来说就是寄宿在大学所在地的一户人家里，但这并不是一个热门的选择。选寄宿家庭的不确定性就好像买彩票一样，幸运的话会分到充满美食的家庭，你也会有足够的私人空间。但不幸的话，房东可能是一个奇怪的养小猫咪的老太婆，每天给你吃罐装浓汤，周六晚上还强迫你跟她一起织毛衣⋯

A relatively unpopular option is staying with a family that lives in the city where you go to uni. This is variable and largely luck of the draw; you could get a family who has a great cook and lets you have your own space, or you could end up with a canned-soup loving cat lady who forces you to crochet with her every Saturday night.