<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>1:15 wish i could go overseas <,,> tut not fair well you'll have your opportunity one day mm tut <.>when oh <.>gosh when are you going um <,> this year well <,> i'm sort of <.>not <.>yeah i'm sort of deciding <.>i it'll probably be midnovember and um <.>probably yeah probably leaving about twentieth of november <{><[>and go for <.>th go for three months <,> and <.>i i'm i just probably stay in london for <.>a a week or two and then go over to europe and just travel around <[>mm so you don't even know where you're going to go in <{><[>europe yet <[>no no idea <{><[>laughs <[>just gonna go with the flow <&>2:00 both laugh you should er oh i've <.>got i've <.>got are you going to ski yeah yeah i'll ski sniffs yeah but um i'm not sure if i want to work or not eh <{1><[1>laughs it's <.>just i don't <.>know i'd <.>rather i'd <{2><[2>rather be um spending my time sort of looking at all the sights rather than working <[1>mm <[2><.>wh but how can you afford to go over there for such a long time without working well i mean you just gonna <.>have basically you just have to really manage your money but like <.>i are you saving anything now no i'm not <{><[>that's the problem <[>well how are you going to afford it well it's only going to cost me six hundred dollars return for my trip <{><[><.>t to heathrow <[>how come how come cos my sister she's an air new <.>zealand oh bloody <{><[>hell laughs <[>yeah yeah and um did you get discount to canada yeah <{1><[1><.>i what <.>flew flew there for er five hundred and thirty dollars return but i flew <&>3:00 <.>bus business class <{2><[2>on the way back <[1>you did <[2>oh that's unreal plus they gave me my own room in <.>haw um on waikiki <.>be waikiki beach <,> yeah so i was pretty lucky but my sister's um changed back to domestic now so <.>i oh i probably won't be able to fly business class again <.>oh oh damn <{1><[1>shame laughs have to sit with all the plebs in economy <{2><[2>tut oh god tut oh laughs i'm not even going to be able to go to australia <{3><[3>cos i'm so poor <[1>laughs <[2>yeah <[3>well <.>i'm i mean i'm going to have NO money when i come back to <{1><[1>varsity next year <{2><[2>and <.>it's it's gonna cost me two and a half thousand dollars for fees <{3><[3>so <[1>mm <[2>yeah but <.>th <[3>yeah but you could probably get a hardship yeah get a hardship grant cos i mean i wouldn't have worked over the <{><[>holidays <[>no yeah laughs no <.>i i wasn't on the dole i was overseas skiing <{><[>laughs having a look around and <.>now now i can't afford my fees <[>laughs laughs voc tut voc oh <&>4:00 disgusting they'll fall for it laughs hopefully otherwise it's <.>just two and a half thousand dollars to finish off a b c a <{><[>it's a lot of money for <.>a a <.>d a degree that i don't really want to do <[>mm mm no i don't even know if i'm gonna go back next year anyway and plus they're gonna reduce student allowances as well oh <{><[>yeah <[>it's quite on the cards that's ridiculous yeah i don't know how they expect us to survive but i was talking to stu and I get only <.>eight seventy dollars less than he does a week and he works six days a week really? <{><[>how much does he get a week <[>yeah he gets three hundred in the hand? yeah and how many hours tut well he works six days <{><[><.>wh <[><.>six well five days he works <,,> tut eight thirty till five thirty sometimes six thirty but they get <.>off days off and stuff and then saturday morning nine thirty <{><[>till one thirty <[>snorts i sort of can't imagine him <{1><[1>working i mean him working is <.>going going along and doing <&>5:00 a couple of <{2><[2>stretches word <[1>no <[2>laughs a couple of plies word laughs <,> but they work <.>r i <.>mean <.>imagine oh it's just unreal that they'd <.>be cos i can't even do two aerobics classes in a row and they have to do it every single day what aerobics well <.>n not aerobics but it's just as strenuous mm it <.>keeps it's really hard must be super fit super <.>well yeah super fit <,> really tight laughs laughs tut oh so we're gonna go to the pub tonight are you going no <,> i wasn't <.>even oh <.>well i wasn't <.>even if i'd known that um miles was leaving <.>today wasn't gonna leave <{><[>today i wouldn't have gone cos that's the only reason that i went along <[>oh yeah oh really? yeah oh miles is probably gonna stay for ages he's gonna come up and ask if he can borrow the <.>video wants to watch a video this <.>afternoon he can watch it <&>6:00 oh yeah yeah <,,><&>3 yeah he's not leaving till wednesday now no he's gonna <.>get he's gonna get pretty bored yeah i <.>know no he won't cos <.>he'll mm laughs he'll word i'm not surprised oh man <,> tut yeah yeah well we've probably been <{1><[1>talking for <.>about we've probably <.>been we've been probably talking for <.>a five minutes now jenny and we've <{2><[2>run out of things to say <[1>yep five minutes <[2>laughs <{><[>no no word <[>yeah tut oh man air new zealand crew <.>see see these two guys here <{><[>they're fags <[>yeah <.>y you can tell <{><[>no <[>well yeah they are and like tut tut see my <.>sister how old's your sister she's <.>twen she's twenty seven really yeah and like <.>sh when we were in the cocktail <.>par cocktail bar in hawaii she got asked for i d oh my goodness and <.>li and like she didn't have it <{1><[1>and i <&>7:00 said well i've got my i d i'm twenty one and this is my sister and she's six years older than me <{2><[2>laughs and they said oh all right <[1>yeah <[2>laughs oh far out so how many kids are there in your family um four altogether including myself oh wow <{><[>and you're the youngest <[>i'm the baby yeah yeah i've got an older sister <,> who's um <.>thirty thirty two yeah thirty two she's got two little <.>girls my two nieces lucy and norma <,> and <.>lu little lucy will be er ten in november yeah and norma's eight so i <.>mean it's <.>just time has just really flown mm cos i mean they <.>were they were <.>eleven i was an uncle when i was eleven eleven <{1><[1><.>that's voc miranda is an <.>unc <.>w an uncle <.>she she <.>was <.>a an auntie before she was even BORN <{2><[2>laughs that's really <{3><[3>so hard <.>to <[1>yeah <[2>laughs <[3>yeah cos <.>like yeah <.>my <&>8:00 yeah <.>my yeah <.>m cos my father's got um an uncle that's um three years younger than him oh <.>n yeah that's about what miranda is mm it's pretty young mm <.>it's yeah cos she <.>goes we were just sitting in the quad one day and it was when we were in the seventh form she goes oh there's my nephew and he was sort of like first year university tut freaky <,,> <{><[>yeah <[>laughs mm anyway i <.>wen i had to go along to this um this sort of cocktail evening cos these are all air new zealand crew yeah and um my sister warned me about these <{><[><.>t couple of guys she said you know i mean they're gay so sort of <.>don't don't be too taken back <[>laughs yeah and um course you know i was sort <.>of didn't really like gays much <.>th <.>a <.>a <.>th <.>th <.>th at that stage and like <.>i i hadn't met anyone that was gay yeah and so i sort of didn't know what to expect but <&>9:00 they actually turned out to be really fantastic guys yeah and they really looked after <{><[>me on the flight <[>are they really camp camp camp camp camp mm? like do they really act it up <{><[>or are <.>they <[>oh yeah yeah <{><[>they really do <.>they <,> snorts it was really funny eh they're really amusing <[>they do <,,> laughs yeah cos that one looks like word yeah this <.>one he's such a crack up and like <.>this he is just SO professional on the flight yeah anyway we shouldn't really be <{1><[1>incriminating air new zealand by saying they have gay stewards <{2><[2>yeah <[1>sniffs laughs <[2>laughs that's not incriminating anyway oh and <.>th that's me er <.>i um flew up in the um cockpit cockpit with the pilot <{><[>out of fiji <[>laughs you look like a little six year old boy oh <{><[>word <[>well it was pretty exciting mm well you got to <.>s <{><[>word <[>it was pretty neat is this fiji er no no this is hawaii oh hawaii <.>tha <.>that oh that's out of place that's um that's stanley park <&>10:00 oh yeah in vancouver oh sneezes coughs oh that's hawaii isn't it lovely <{><[><.>not <.>that's that's in the middle of winter <[>mm yeah yeah sniffs are they in the northern or the southern hemisphere hawaii? yeah i think it might be JUST in the northern hemisphere mm yeah i thought it was too <,,> laughs <,> tut <,> oh look at <.>that <.>that that's an ice castle <{><[>outside the banff spring hotels <[>mm does <.>that just amazing how long does it stay for oh <.>i well it really depends on the weather how cold it is yeah tut but yeah something like that <.>pl probably stay around <.>i in that <.>f form you know without melting too much probably for two or three weeks <.>i it was really nice and <.>we we went in the <.>inside went in the inside of it and someone had puked on the <{><[>inside it was really gross <&>11:00 <[>laughs laughs yeah oh and that's it that's us when we went to the hot pools after not <{><[>getting a ride laughs <[>mm <{><[>so all of <.>the they were all trees not rocks at all <[>yeah yep they're all trees mm it's pretty amazing especially when it snows <.>in in <.>th the hot pool mm it's fantastic yeah cos like i was talking to an american woman <.>last when we were up skiing last year and she said that it was just unreal the amount of rocks that there were you just don't get any rocks <,> <{><[>in north america <[>mm and plus hardly any ice at all mm unlike here it's really bad tut laughs <.>tim tim said it was closed yesterday closed? yeah they've had really atrocious weather up there i CAN'T <.>believe it's really sort <.>of we've got such small ski fields here i can't sort of believe that those two people were killed in that avalanche <&>12:00 TWO people? yeah two people were killed where up at turoa oh was it turoa oh no it was <.>tu <{><[>tukino <[><.>tu tukino yeah tukino skifield which is just by <{><[>turoa and like they they were actually um <,> er patrol ski patrol doing avalanche control <[>yeah oh yuk and the <.>oth the other six people who survived just said they freaked out and the didn't think that they were gonna live cos <.>w like one of them was under the snow for an hour and the <{><[>only reason they found him was one of his fingers just sort of poking out of the snow <[>mhm oh yuk i just <{><[>voc oh <[>cos when <.>you when you're caught in an avalanche like you get all disoriented yeah and like you know once the snow's covered you you don't which way's up and which way's down oh really? yeah cos you're all disoriented yeah and you just think you're covered by snow and it's all black so you don't know <.>w oh <&>13:00 so you culd be you could be um you know trying to crawl out but you'd actually be going <{><[>down further into the snow so what you got to do is if you get caught in an avalanche is you actually spit <,> and because of gravity <[>oh yuk oh yuk oh so you spit <{1><[1>laughs and <{2><[2>laughs yeah if it if if it just yeah if it doesn't come come out of your mouth and just stays on top of the lips it means you're upside down <[1>yeah <[2>if it doesn't word oh that's that's VERY very helpful to know laughs <{><[>laughs <[>yeah it's just i'm interested in case you get caught in an avalanche pretty strong possibility you know <&>13:30