<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:20 okay now i've just found out that you BOTH shifted schools <,> when you <.>were when you were children that's right right <.>wh you went from karori west to i went from karori west to wimbledon in southern hawkes bay which was at that time a very small sole charge school and i was the only child who was NOT related to anyone else that must have been quite a shock <{><[>word <[>it certainly was mm and how did you go about adjusting to that was it easy it wasn't VEry easy i can remember quite vividly being locked in the tool shed at <.>play play times as a sort of <,> um <&>1:00 initiation <{><[>ceremony <[>BY the other kids? yes <,> by all the other kids <{><[>goodness me <[>that's <{><[>charming isn't it <[>so it was charming but you know we finally got out of that that's what happens <{1><[1>children gang up <{2><[2>when they have a stranger come in <[1>joined in <[2>i think i think they're quite cruel aren't they <{><[>yes yes <[>oh very yes i was only nine and i probably looked quite different too <{><[><,> all the others were very fair i was dark and <[>was <.>the oh i see you know so i <.>wasn't <,> <{><[>obviously an outsider <[>so <.>it oh right and they were <,> children from a farming community yes they were and my parents were from karori and they were real <,> city types right didn't know one end of a horse from another and of course the <.>s the country life was going to suit me right <.>so but why did your parents <,> GO from karori is that i mean <{><[>is that an <.>UN <[>oh AH <{><[>word <[>well i've been trying <.>to <.>i've i've been trying to find this out recently and i think i've probably hit on the answer it's probably MY fault really because when i was seven i was <&>2:00 involved in a fairly horrendous car accident AT karori <{><[>on the junction of tringham street and karori road which you probably know <[>mhm yes i do and i was smashed up quite badly just because i ran out into the road <.>and <{1><[1>and collided with a passing vehicle and spent about a year in wellington public hospital in the children's <{2><[2>ward <[1>typical <[2>DID YOU <{><[>OH how AWFUL <[>yes and in THOSE days wellington public hospital children's ward was a pretty revolting place <{><[>wasn't it <[>well <{1><[1><.>i <.>i i liked it actually after a while i got used to it and i i remember looking at the marvellous royal doulton <,> <{2><[2>tiles <{3><[3>on the wall <,> which i think are in storage now are aren't they <[1>yes <[2>oh <[3>mhm have they not put them <{1><[1>up somewhere <{2><[2>they took them down carefully <[1>they <[2>they are putting it up there <{1><[1>and that i went into the hospital <{2><[2>yesterday and they had a counter there with <{3><[3>er two women and they were er selling or asking for donations <[1>yes <[2>are they <[3>mm mm TOWARDS it and they had the photos of them there and that we actually looked in the children's ward <,> the doors <,> and we couldn't <&>3:00 see the actual <,> i don't know where they've put them up or whether they have? <,,><&>3 yes no they're going to i think i mean it was part of the idea that they should restore them somewhere yes was it i mean you ran out into the road oh absolutely <,> i ran out from the wiffins er front <,> front garden which now has a concrete wall going straight up and down so of course children can't do that sort of thing but THEN in nineteen forty and it was on leap year's day nineteen forty so i particularly remember it <,> tut there was a BANK running down to the road <{1><[1><,> which was very nice to run up and down <{2><[2><,> <.>we <.>we that's what we DID on the way <{3><[3>to school you see from richmond avenue which was where my parents lived <,> and we ran up and down this bank <.>r repeatedly <{4><[4>and onto the road of course and them back up and onto the road and of course it was just my bad luck that a car happened to be coming along the <&>4:00 time i ran down <,> and i was dragged along and thrown back and <,> smashed up <.>f fairly badly and um <[1>aha <[2>oh yes <[3>on <.>b right <[4>oh yes but really in danger of of losing your life <{><[>or yes <[>well yes i think i was fairly <{1><[1>er close to it <{2><[2>but anyway <[1>mm <[2>how did the um people that were in the car respond there was i think it was a van and i was hooked on to the er the handle of the van and dragged along and then the eventually the guy who <.>dro was driving it didn't realise that anything had untoward had happened and he didn't even slow down i don't think but <{><[>eventually the van door the near side van door <[>good god came <{><[>open with you word on it <[>with me on it opened up and i was flung down on the road and i think <,> it was the flinging down on the road <{1><[1>at speed <{2><[2>that did the damage <[1>yes <[2>yes yes and i had my right leg smashed up and my right arm and my head a bit laughs word and er the <.>sk quite severe concussion and er was out to it i presume and <&>5:00 of course the people who gathered round tried to stand me up and get me <{><[>walking <[>oh no and that probably made things worse yeah so after about a year i think i came out word i was the little cripple girl going to town with the er calliper on my leg on the tram you <{1><[1>see everyone felt very sorry for the little cripple girl <,> <{2><[2>but then of course it was right at the worst part of the war <[1>oh yes <[2>yes mm with er nineteen forty one which was a bad time yes and my father was lucky enough to have a good job with armstrong and springbore he was <,> er sales manager mhm and he <.>was you know he'd worked up from nothing <{1><[1>his parents had nothing <{2><[2>but he was a selfmade man but <{3><[3>he was good plus he was um involved with the masonic lodge <{4><[4>he was a pass master of herbert tegel <,> and i think it was quite a wrench for them and they but they did come to the decision that <,> um it was probably the best thing for me <{5><[5><,> and <[1>right <[2>yes <[3>right <[4>mhm <[5>right and so they went up <&>6:00 there to retire? to <{><[>farm to? <[>no no they they <{><[>my father wanted <,> he wanted to be his own man <[>to sell word aha and so he had the opportunity to take over a country store which <{1><[1>was what he did do <,> <{2><[2><.>and <[1>oh i see <[2>goodness what a change and laughs <{1><[1>become become his own man it was a post office store and it's quite a <,> but it was a a bit run down at that <{2><[2>time and he bought the whole thing and then started up <[1>GREAT <[2>yeah mm splendid <.>so mm <.>r well you tell julie what happened to YOU when you <{><[>word WHY you had to change schools cos that's an amazing story <[>what happened to you yes and that well we went <.>t to the er miramar north <,> school had opened up so it was a brand new school but and <,> there were six in our family while <,> when my sister was in standard six voc the headmaster failed half the class and they weren't going to go on to college and my father was the chairman of the school committee at that stage so he went round and collected all the reports up and took them <&>7:00 into the education board and of course they said that yes they had all passed and that so of course i was going UP into that class the next year mhm so dad took me away and sent me to another school so i went into worser bay and i met some lovely girls but i had to make new friends <{1><[1>there <,> and then i went on to wellington east girls' college and when i got to there i was sick for the first three weeks because i went and took commercial class and there was noone that i knew and i thought i can't FACE making new <{2><[2>friends again in <{3><[3>another year <[1>yes <[2>mm <[3>mm right and my sister was there and the headmistress used to come along and say you'll have to take vivienne home she was very annoyed with me <,> and that but i <,> overcame that <,> and <{><[>i enjoyed college but <[>yes and did you find that the it was hard to adjust did you find the children yes yes were they <{><[>mean <[>not very nice to you no i'd i can't remember but it must have been <.>hard it must have been <{><[>hard to have that EFFECT on you <&>8:00 <[>it MUST HAVE BEEN HARD yes yes looking back it <{1><[1>wasn't until years later <,> <{2><[2>and that so i like permanent things i don't like change and that's what's come through <[1>yes <[2>right yes i sympathise because i moved school every two or three years all through my whole life mm because my parents were teachers and i've got exactly that same feeling the one thing i want to do is to <{><[>STAY PUT laughs <[>stay yes and <.>that well <.>i it wasn't till years later you know and i suddenly think thought now why do i HATE change of any kind and i think that stems from that <,> and it was <.>i it was terrible really you know he was a very nice man but at that stage they had um progression or something and he was stopped from doing that they just <.>s stopped him and said well that's the level you're going to stay at <,> and i think that's a pity mm mm mm well i was pushed ahead um mainly because <.>a at karori west school and i BLAME KARORI WEST SCHOOL <,> if you're listening <,> um because i happened to be able <&>9:00 to read when i started school because i'd been going to um tut a marvellous person called er gwen lattey who lived in karori road and she had been a teacher at queen margaret college mhm and you probably may know know her or know of her and er <,> she taught me to read on the piano school when i was four so i could read of course when i went to <,> karori west and they pushed me ahead they only gave me <,> a year in the primers oh and so i was <{1><[1>only just i was very <{2><[2>young i was small for my <{3><[3>age too <,> i was only just six and i landed up in standard one well okay i could do the work <[1>you were very young <[2>mm <[3>mhm yes but i was not <{1><[1>so mature i was not SOcially ready for it in ANY way and added to that when i was in standard two JUST in standard two and JUST turned seven i <,> had this accident and landed up with a year in <{2><[2>HOSpital <,> tut and came out of that well if they'd had any sense they would have <&>10:00 put me <{3><[3>back to standard <{4><[4>two for another year <,> and things would have been fine <[1>so mature no <[2>mhm <[3><.>ba <[4>yes yes of course they would word <&>10:00 prime excuse to do it and ABsolutely yes yes <&>10:06