<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:12 it's all right now though how did you do it just um <,> tut <,> just playing ball in the gym yeah playing ball in the gym and <,,> <&>sighs and then you know <,> just um <,,> <.>w <.>w there's voc this there's er a part in the game where er <,,> tut where er you're allowed to dribble to the basket you know if you feel that you're free mhm <&>1:00 after you dribble to the basket so mhm tut i thought i saw a i saw a lane and er and i was dribbling to the hole <,,> which is the basket and er on my way my cousin thought he'd put his foot out to try to stop me <,> <{><[>but er <[>why did he put his foot out instead of like <{><[>come to you and voc <[>oh no it was like you know just a voc defensive strategy you know that he'd put his foot out but like not he didn't do it on purpose he put his foot out in order to get his <{><[>body in front of me <[>mm oh but in doing so like i had er <&>sighs in doing so he had um my foot had landed on his on the foot that he had stuck out and um <,,> had rolled my ankle which i thought was just a <.>s a sprain but it is yeah yeah i know it's a it's a bad sprain though you know if it was a just a sprain i i thought it'd be over by now i thought it'd be that it'd been healed but i'm still hindered by it i can't i'm restricted eh don't make that face at me like <{><[>no that's like <[>laughs <{><[><&>sighs <[><&>sighs so you've had a bad week have you yeah it's really frustrating cos i it's really frustrating cos i can't do the things i want to do every time i go to the to varsity people are walking around laughs and like staring at me <{><[>like they think i've got a problem <[>laughs laughs well that's because you didn't take your crutches today <,> you should have yeah i should've i really get around fast on one of those things <,> but i thought i'd know you try the <.>br do the <,> do what was right what everyone was <&>moves closer to microphone telling me to do and um go without them tut <,> and you know with mm go without them to um to try and strengthen my <&>3:00 foot laughs but you know <,,> every time i walk there's always pain you know every every step that i take there's pain and er so i don't know whether that's doing any good or not i know that um but you weren't supposed to walk on it didn't the doctor say yeah is <.>l is yeah i'm not supposed to yeah you're trying to be a man no i'm not trying to be a man <{><[>not trying to be hard <[>oh yeah you're trying to <{><[>be hard <[>i just want to go i had to go the meeting i have to go to meetings <{><[>and various things and <[>yeah well you should have taken your crutches <,> yes yes well er thank you for that er laughs so what did <{><[>you think about the meeting <[>word problem huh? today the exec meeting oh the meeting it was just <,,> oh it was a really frustrating meeting yeah but at least we got our way we got our way yeah which was the main thing i think a lot of it helped <,> due to er um you know tala yeah lia told me that she wasn't very happy she said it wasn't fair when they told her what had gone down <&>4:00 lia? yeah <{1><[1>she said oh <{2><[2>that's not fair <[1>oh okay <[2>it's true though it's not fair because you know i tell you i mean that i mean how many years now tut but she should have <{><[>announced it at the beginning nalofa <[>gosh yeah she should have announced at the beginning say if you don't voc perform at the independent ball <{><[>you can't go to the so'o <[>mm but like i've mean for every year every year i mean this this concerns the years that that um like in the future next year and <{><[>the rest of the years i mean i don't <.>s i don't think <&>sighs <,> i don't think the <.>i independence ball should be a criteria you know to um in order to go for free i mean you know what i mean <[>mm tut i think it should no i think it should because then if if it isn't then hardly anyone will come for the independence ball things and people will only start <&>pronounced sart start supporting the asosi just before the so'o well perhaps then perhaps then it would be <&>5:00 good to mention it that it's one of the criterias <{><[>you know in order to go but like when it comes down to the crunch there we shouldn't judge people by you know if they're if they perform or not <[>yeah word mm you know what <{><[>i mean <[>but they show their support and they <{><[>bring chickens and stuff mm <[>yeah yeah word bring chickens and stuff and come mm yeah well when you're president next year you can do that this is the first and the last year i'll word on the exec laughs oh mind you i feel that um <,,><&>3 it'll be interesting next year seeing if the <.>asos er the so'otanga sorry will be held here mm <,,> true wonder if <{><[>you'll <[>if you were nominated for what for presidency NO WAY for any any any <.>n <.>t for <{><[>anything i wouldn't <[>the secretary again perhaps <{><[>back for vic <[>no no? <,> <{><[>i can word <[>cos i think i would be <.>th the <&>6:00 ideal thing for a person who runs for the exec should be they should be at uni they should be at university yeah <,,> <{1><[1>like for like bill and bill fatialofa <{2><[2>who else ani <[1>yeah <[2>ani what about ani's at varsity eh but she she's doing parttime she's not yeah and if they're not around all the time then they don't see all the people <,> the kids mm that's <{><[>interesting <[>even tanita tanita mu mm that's why no that's that's a good point actually you should be it so that you can talk to <.>k to the people and keep an eye on the exec huh yeah you think we done a very good job this year i don't think so i don't think we <{><[>have either <[>yeah i think we did a cos we had a good start you reckon i don't even <{><[>think we had a good start <[>i think we had a good start we had a good plan and we were really organised and then <{><[>everyone <[>i think that amongst ourselves we had a good start yeah <&>7:00 you know <{><[>you know that what we had to i mean yeah you're right yeah <[>laughs that's what i mean that's what i mean <{><[>we had a good start in the beginning and then <[>when it come down to it <,> i mean putting that stuff to action laughs something happened along the way <,,> but we might only have two concerts you know which is all right that's all i wanted really i don't want to perform in a concert why's that cos they don't want when you do the soa cos they do soas for every family aha mm mm i won't have any family does that does that really matter yeah it matters to me <,> what do you mean you won't have any family you got family i just got my my father <{><[>i don't have anyone else you know how they usually come up and they dance with you <[>yeah yeah well i won't have anyone to <.>c you got who else you got you got <{><[>your mum your dad you got <[>i got fale and samuel and that's all <&>8:00 fale sam voc and after that maybe but you'll be up with everyone else yeah who else i mean gosh you got who's your other family around here <{><[>word <[>that's all buddy but buddy will be up on the stage too buddy i mean out there you got is your cousin you got a <.>r cousin round that lives around here mm who in um <,> yeah but <{1><[1>you see my loko my my church they don't believe in <{2><[2>things like that so they wouldn't come <[1>word <[2>oh right right oh yeah okay that's what i mean really and does that go for other seven day adventist MM kids that are within the asosi who else is there <&>9:00 there's noone there's just <{><[>us <[>word word yeah because we're the only ones that do it all the rest don't go oh voc <,,><&>3 oh well um <,> tut oh it's not gosh you'll have friends that come up i have no friends laughs no you have friends oh but the talent show though i don't <{><[>know are you guys going to put something in or what <[>um that's what tala says she already gave her name in er let me check the list then eh she says she already gave you her name <&>opens up list clears throat is matu and them doing one oh yeah i'd say i asked asked matu today if he'd sing a song <,,><&>3 i asked if he could sing a song <,,> <{><[>word <[>so there's ten items twelve twelve and i haven't put um tala's name down but i'll do that when i get a pen laughs but like um <,> yeah yeah i asked him to do a item an item but um with jay mm we asked him to help sele because we're trying <&>10:00 to get the blues brothers together tut oh who have have you said do it with sele er this guy out in porirua by the name of harry <{><[>he used to do it voc yeah so we had we're the <.>ba we're the back up band but like with sele he had he had harry which was a you know a big guy to portray jake you know jake <[>you've got him tut oh yeah <{><[>laughs word <[>in the blues brothers yeah they <.>w they used to come out on the stage and do the act and they'd introduce each act and that's what we're trying to get with jay and we asked jay today whether he could what'd he <{><[>what'd he say <[>and he was going no no no but i'll er i'll be there for the altar call at the end and er you know he wanted to do the altar call you know just chuck all that christian jargon and he said that er if you want me to help i'll just come and er say some lines and stuff laughs and i was going yeah yeah yeah yeah okay do that while you while you're portraying jake and he goes <{1><[1>oh no no no he said no no but <{2><[2>word <[1>laughs <[2>who would do it though mm? er we don't know who else but i wish we're pushing for jay because you know his wit he's quite funny is he <&>11:00 yeah laughs cos he was funny when he said who's that girl over there trying to think of the one at the door the one in the front that's tala <,> tala that's right tala what about tala he he met her on sunday at the leader's meeting AND and she was saying that he was really quiet you know that he didn't say anything and cos she was doing the word stuff and that he was really quiet she got to talk to him afterwards and yeah and well jay he was talking away talking away and she had introduced herself but he can't remember names oh yeah it's really quite <{><[>bad <[>i'm the same way people introduce themselves and i can't remember mm yeah <{><[>and <[>i'm the same way yeah and yeah he just said who was there and i said that's tala tut who that so why did you say it was funny for <&>12:00 just the the things just the way he was saying it you know word laughs you know i was going gosh don't you remember anybody laughs see how word like like um like with david when he said that to <{><[>david word <[>laughs he doesn't think he's ever met david before in his life <{><[>can't remember <[>did he use to go a group called the <.>nona oh not the nomads um wine and cheese who jay yeah he went there well he wasn't just like <{><[>er <[>regular regular but like he went there now and we use to go there a couple of times <&>12:20