The northern suburbs of Dunedin are reawakening from their
summer slumber as University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic
students move back into the area to prepare for a new
academic year.
Houses, flats and apartments are beginning to fill with
occupants, before course approval starts later this week.
Pictured are international students Celeste Peters (21), of
Melbourne, and Tobi Obafemi, of the United States, lug
suitcases outside their Forth St flat; Carla Hodgkinson (20),
of Dunedin, carries some drawers in Castle St; while Graeme
Bartlett helps daughter Emily Bartlett (17), both of Dunedin,
move a bed into a property on Leith St North, yesterday.
The tertiary institutions are preparing to welcome more than
20,000 new and returning students.
A lively social calender has also been organised for the mass
annual return of the scarfies, with Orientation events at the
university and the polytechnic, and several headline acts
lined up to perform at Forsyth Barr Stadium next week.
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