<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:35 so what did you think of the nightclubs down there fiona oh <,> i enjoyed the the church itself more <,> what did you think of the nightclubs tilesa and social all that voc well you know it was all right yeah did you dance much <,,><&>4 <&>3:00 um yeah although yep i <{1><[1>danced but i saw you dancing all the time as well yeah <{2><[2>yeah <[1>yeah <[2>yeah i was yeah that was me you were on the <{><[>floor almost the whole entire night eh <[>yeah i almost was doing the splits i no no you did a splits and you were jumping up and <{><[>down <[>just when we were in that big <{><[>circle <[>and then you were doing a cartwheel no that was the night after oh right yeah <{><[>i <[>oh so that meant that did you go out every night <.>n <.>n but you were the one by yourself in the corner eh both laugh i don't <{><[>think so <[>by yourself eh only the <{><[>lonely <[>laughs nah <{><[>yeah <[><.>di did you make a lot of friends down there though honest i i'm just trying to recall how many i made but not really what <{><[>all but one <[>none yeah or even half nah just yeah laughs nah <,> some from waikato and oh you met my cousins you were saying from waikato university i thought <&>4:00 auckland were yeah some of them were nice yeah osa was really good word cos you know the so'o thing i reckon it's really good how every year how how all the universities in in new zealand get together <{1><[1>like all the samoan <.>s <{2><[2>associations and i <{3><[3>think it's <.>r it's really good how we get together and have a what a whole week of what events like debates <{4><[4>and <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>yeah <[4>yeah last year there was <{><[>sports <[>sports like what um um <{><[>word ball <[>volleyball <{><[>volleyball <[>HEY didn't we ring win the basket <{><[>ball <[>we won the <{><[>basketball whoops whoops <[>right up word man whoops claps ouch yeah laughs and um didn't the boys win the volleyball yes they <{><[>did way to go whoops that was good <[>yes man it <.>was what was your song <,,> it was er <{><[>v i c t o r <[>v i c t o r i a <{><[>victoria yes um didn't you and sam you know cos fiona is a you know but aren't you the sports officer eh <[>wasted um oh yes i'm i was but there's <{><[>elections next week and word <[>you was eh that's <.>o on monday on monday monday next week yeah aren't you gonna go for it <{1><[1>again oh i think you should cos i thought that you and sam did a really <&>5:00 good job and i liked the colours this year grey and black was a lot <{2><[2>better than <[1>nah <[2>oh it was really good oh i mean it was a really good job but it's just too much pressure and oh nah i don't <{><[>blame you i don't blame you well would you run for something else other than sports officer <[>it takes it out of you nah i just want to next year just to <{1><[1>just to relax you know i mean you know if if they need you know someone to help i'll help out but you know it's just too much responsibility like you know a whole <{2><[2>year just you know sports word nominee you gather it up <{3><[3>word <[1>be a good supporter just you know to be a supporter <[2>that's true eh <[3>you took it on it was a lot of pressure eh yeah but i liked when you said um when you told them your point <{1><[1>you know you can only do so much but <{2><[2>that was really good <[1>oh yeah <[2>that's true yeah cos um yeah cos um that's the same line that i gave um when i was talking to sam as <{><[>well cos <.>i cos i think it starts to get really violent <[>yeah yeah yeah sometimes i can see that you guys are trying to trying to match everyone's expectations mm and and you know that you can never do that because like in that what was it in that book of in the daily bread how it goes on about <,> i mean how you'll always there will always be people <.>cr um to criticise and if you try and <&>6:00 follow up on everyone you won't accomplish <{><[>anything <[>mm that's right <{><[>i learned from that <[>but you know choice praise the lord laughs all the time yeah but but yeah i mean no i'm not running for anything er next i mean <.>do do you think you will no i don't think so because you know how next year <{><[>i won't be here so that's why it's best if i don't run for anything <[>oh right yeah okay yeah but yeah the so'o was really good eh yeah every day um i just i just really had a good time especially hanging out our billets you know i mean YOU know <{><[>cos you're word choice too <[>and cos oh yeah i thought it was really choice OH <{><[>guess what our billet um mele's coming up next week <[>eh yeah? <{><[>what day friday <[>friday well she's coming up friday night <{><[>for the weekend <[>is <.>sh will she be here in time for the fellowship <,> oh she arrives at quarter past nine oh pity <.>i voc if she arrived earlier i would i would've brought her up because <{1><[1>voc she's a full on mega <{2><[2>christian for the lord man i thought choice amen i was really happy <[1>yeah <[2>that's massive man yeah oh yeah cos that's the combined one <{1><[1>we're having a combined one yeah oh YOU <{2><[2>know <&>7:00 <[1>yeah <[2>i know yeah are you gonna be there um i've got a family dance on <{><[>next week and is it oh it's funny how everything comes on at the same time eh <[>oh right tut gee well back to the so'o laughs yeah as for the so'o yeah i thought it was um tut um yeah i really enjoyed it <.>th there was a lot of good things and and there was a lot of <{1><[1>bad but you know but you learn from your mistakes you know <{2><[2>like how you do things and you regret <[1>mm <[2>yeah mm and you know and i've just realised that you know i've got a you know i'm really stubborn but i never knew that i was and now that you know swallow your pride and you know just save it that's right and it's really good to be back in fellowship as well it's really good the so'o the difference this year is that i voc um that i went out of my way to make friends i wasn't so much of a snob i must mm well what about how were you last year then oh <.>w when i when i compare this year and <{><[>last year last year i didn't really go out and meet much people i always i stayed within our own group <[>mm yeah yeah because last year <{><[>i didn't <[>i i could tell this year you know you really went out there you know voc guess who i met oh this is and i went <&>8:00 huh this girl man she gets around meeting word <{1><[1>word word it's really it's <{2><[2>really choice eh <[1>laughs <[2>true eh yeah yeah i met a <.>l we met a lot of people a LOT like i was gonna write about a whole folder full of letters from everyone yeah? hello can i have a look yeah <{><[>oh apart from that they're just letters from all over <[>word oh did um what's his <.>n um oh is that from your billet that's <{1><[1>from my billet mele <{2><[2>mele and um and and nofo sent me a big envelope and some photos <[1>oh right <[2>choice man photos? of him? of him <{><[>laughs <[>oh oh oh can i have a tissue <{><[>can i have a tissue please <[>oh here do you want a tissue here <&>rips tissue out of box through next utterance but yeah they were really nice people down there eh <,,> eh um and <.>th there was um and one thing about the so'o this year i admit there was a um there was a bit of unity <{><[>that i saw this year that i didn't see last year like example like you know how on wednesday how we had um sort of wednesday how we had um um <.>vo volleyball volleyball and basketball <[>mm that was tuesday oh oh it was tuesday and remember how um laughs and do you remember how like um we <&>9:00 came together and <.>w and we were cheering for the for for the for the main games and waikato victoria and who <{><[>was the other <[>massey i think it was <{><[>massey <[>massey and <.>o no no that was it eh yep we actually sat together <{><[>and we sang songs and to me i thought that was really good because <[>together yeah sense of unity it <{><[>was like last year there <.>w there wasn't everyone kept in their own groups um so i was really happy yeah <[>yeah but just yeah i mean you know victoria's got a you know sort of reputation of going up to people yeah <{><[>that's true <[>you know really sticking together you guys were really good so were you fiona laughs i thought it was really good i think another thing it was good for it was good for victoria themself yeah yeah themselves <{><[>um a lot of them <[>because we got a lot of feedback as well that's true eh and it's like i <.>m cos i've got friends from each asosi and i've and i've had feedbacks from them and they said that they that they really enjoyed osa mm victoria because they thought that they were a bunch of really you know friendly people oh that's good so <{><[>next year everyone's <&>10:00 gonna come in hello <[>true eh party up so yeah cos rachel um received something from um waikato yeah university and they just said that um some of the christians up there want to come down here because they believe that you know our OUR group was stronger sort of <{1><[1>you know their group their <{2><[2>that's what word was saying <[1>yeah <[2>that's what peter that's how peter feels too really oh that's you know oh it's just that massive feedback that um <{><[>rachel just gave word <[>it IS good that's why next year that's why um next year we've got to um we've we got to carry on the roles eh yeah yeah word <{><[>word <[>try just to be who we are that's true mm <{><[>but i don't know <[>how come but the debates eh they were debates were good eh it was good victoria did well <.>i i i give credit for um like for for like the samoan <{><[>debaters even though we came second but you can see that you know there they became <.>frie gave it heaps eh <[>yeah that that was hard yeah oh yeah <,> really give it heaps heaps and heaps <,,> oh man and AS for the um for <&>11:00 the um palagi um debates <{><[>they had <[>yeah it <.>w it <.>w i mean oh <.>tani oh no no tanita was tanita was in the <{><[>samoan <[>sao yeah <,> they were really good eh and you know the first one WAS their one and the <{><[>last one <[>it's true eh and the rachel hunter <{><[>laughs <[>who was that auckland <,,> was it <{><[>auckland <[>OH one of the guys yeah yeah yeah <,> sorry tilesa that's all right but yeah the palagis won <{><[>yeah <[>but it's funny cos um voc it's like every year like you like in my first year how like they have sports outside <{><[>and it's like they <.>have they have their substitute and that's how it was again this year <[>yeah mm <&>11:40