<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:09 meeting katrina in town at <,> about twenty to eleven but that's okay <.>i've i have um tut <{><[>i don't know what time word mm yes <[>ten minutes or so to spare? oh that's great <{><[>then <[>mm okay <{1><[1>laughs now i don't know what to say <{2><[2>laughs oh <{3><[3>i've got your other photo anyway <{4><[4>so <.>you you're right in there <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3><.>ha have you <[4>oh right oh how lovely i showed everybody in my class yesterday cos none of them they all hear me talking about gavin but they've never seen him and so i showed it everybody and gavin and jimmy and everyone was very interested and impressed laughs oh good mm mm and i've got the other one in my bag now so it's just a matter of reminding me when you see me <{><[>to actually give it to you <[>oh right <.>yes yeah <.>i i'll probably pick up the t t y at some stage and then i'll hand it back to you at the holidays in the holidays oh good yes <{><[>um jim's coming home at half term <&>1:00 <[>word yes yes <{><[>so is gavin yes <[>is gavin going to do that mm yes mm yes well i've got the minicom here <.>too waiting to <{><[>er go back to you <[>oh voc oh that's very good of you we had a burglary while we had that here now i you know i i had forgotten we they stole the video and various things out of the lounge and i thought the next day i thought oh i hope the minicom's there and i raced home and it was laughs cos <{1><[1>that's you know it's a wonder they didn't rip that off as <{2><[2>well <[1>oh good <[2>oh well it's one of those things isn't it <{><[>so er don't don't worry too much about that <[>yes oh you know voc it's probably not as precious as all the other things they did take oh yeah but the <.>all <.>the <.>the insurance company are no longer <,> replacing things <,> you know <{><[>really <[>is that right well they only give you er they only give US cos our house has been broken into three times they've only they only give us very <&>2:00 small percentage now of what we lose oh gosh so yeah it's just that it's so private here and we've got all the windows deadlocked and sniffs it doesn't make any difference they just break them laughs they break the windows? mm oh <{><[>how awful <[>break the back door and um get out through another window mm and last time i spoke to you <.>y er you thought they had some idea who it was mm yes it's some they think there's well there's some young boys living up in montgomery ave <{1><[1>and they come down and <.>th the neighbours' car's been broken <.>in <.>and and another HOUSE has been broken into as well just over the road tut and it all seems to be the same age group breaking in and they think it's these young chaps up in montgomery ave who just walk down through the bush at the back tut and sort of case the joint because you know it's so easy noone around here and <,> tut so that's who they think it is but they haven't actually well <.>th they keep catching people you know young youths who live in karori <{2><[2>and who are not working sniffs but um yeah it's pretty difficult <{3><[3>i think <[1>mm <[2>yes <&>3:00 <[3>they can't actually prove anything i suppose no no and have you got all your property invisibly marked so that they might be able to trace it when they've sold it or not no we haven't got anything voc valuable now pam <{><[>nothing <[>you're not replacing things yourself <{><[>well what about television and things do you not have a t v set now <[>no we DO have a t v set and that's you know it's teletext really expensive we'd never be able to swallows well we'd take us a long time to replace it so we should get that one <,> marked <{><[>mm <[>yes and what sorts of things are they taking we've had two videos stolen mm um all gavin's good computer games and the radio controlled car and walkmans um food jewellery er stuff like that you know <{><[>and bags <[>oh yes you can't very well invisibly mark your frisian jewellery <{><[>can you laughs <[>no and once i felt you know so sorry for the cos they were telling me this story about these boys who don't have jobs who live up in this flat and i <&>4:00 i i sort of started thinking well maybe i should leave a CAKE or something <{><[>laughs i started feeling sorry for them laughs yeah so <[>tut oh oh penny laughs oh mm but if er well now what on earth do they want computer games for if they're so broke they can't afford a <{><[>a machine voc <[>computer oh they just see them as you know they perhaps sell them to other kids or something <{><[>i don't know yeah but um yeah so it <.>strike it's like the police think it's probably boys you know in the age of fifteen sixteen year olds <[>mm i suppose so yeah mm tut which is really you know sad isn't it <,> but um <{><[>that's the way it goes mm <[>yes it is but i still feel saddest for you that you <{><[>haven't got the word cos you weren't home <[>yeah it's a real nuisance coming home mm <{><[>mm tut i hate walking in the door and you know that confronted with all THAT mm but er maybe we keep thinking oh it won't happen again <,> but who knows <[>mm yes do you get phone calls sometimes from people <.>who you know boys who sniffs we quite often get phone calls from BOYS and they're asking for someone and we we <&>5:00 you know we wonder if they've got our phone number and yes you know well we don't now actually but we used to have an awful lot of trouble with the phone when julie was home yes people were always ringing up er i don't know just to abuse her really um kids were always ringing up and asking to speak to her and then hanging up and things like that GEE <{><[>that's terrible <[>so it's quite a relief actually um that it's not happening any more <{1><[1>used to start about three oclock every day of the week well you know as soon as they'd got home from school ten past three or something <{2><[2>and um yes yes they did it to jim a bit too but not so much to him it was more with julie i think with jim it was um teasing him because he couldn't hear properly but they <.>y you know getting him to the phone and it was such an effort for him to hear anything and then he'd and they'd say um er well they'd put on <&>teasing version of jim's surname said three times <.>you and ya or something they'd <{3><[3>they'd would yell down the phone and then hang up and um i <.>it it's that's <&>6:00 why i was very rude to i think probably when jim or um sabrina tried to ring from your place once and i gave them a blasting <[1>oh yeah <[2>oh how awful <[3>tut oh oh i don't <{><[>remember <[>because it wasn't until jim got home and i finally talked to him i worked out that it was actually him trying to ring <{1><[1>but you know i'm very intolerant of any people now who don't quickly say <{2><[2>who they are <[1>laughs <[2>yeah oh i can be like that too <{><[>yeah yep yeah i know <[>yeah voc well it does make you very suspicious of every phone call doesn't it it d it can do if if you get silly phone calls well look get a bug <{><[>like this one <[>laughs yeah and bug them <{><[>laughs <[>yes because i'm thinking now when i use this bug i wish i'd had it when we were having these awful calls <{1><[1>with julie cos maybe we could have <{2><[2>worked out who it was well she probably knew who they were but they would ask us very nicely could i speak to julie please <[1>mm <[2>then you can track them down somehow yeah yes and THEN hang up before she got there and things like that or else they would say stupid things to her and start asking for <&>7:00 somebody <.>e else and all sorts of funny things inhales yeah yeah so any odd phone calls we have had i've always put down to that rather than wondering whether they're people casing a joint or wondering whether we're home or not yes yes that's right yes yes yeah i've no idea you know these these phone calls we get from boys they might be genuinely the wrong number but you think they've probably taken our phone number from here when they've broken in and just annoy us you know doesn't happen very often but mm it could be that i'm very suspicious now but you know mm if <.>any anybody i don't know who rings and they get the wrong number unless they're grown grown up laughs yeah yeah but anyway and how's your new job anyway oh good it's been a little bit haywire this last couple of weeks without the office but apparently i'm moving in next week so that'll be good and er yeah my people are sort of approaching me quite a few people are approaching me students and i'm flat out <&>8:00 <{><[>yes so that that's quite good <[>mm mm yes it is because it takes a while usually for a job like that to tut er really get established i mean people don't immediately trust you mind <{1><[1>you you've been around the place for a while haven't you <{2><[2>so they they probably do but <[1>oh that's for real <[2>yes i HAVE but mm but i think they still it'll still take a little while to build up amongst all the students i'm dealing mainly with the certificate students and a COUPLE of others mm but um you know i hope that more students from the primary programmes and everywhere else'll will come i meant to put a poster into the maori um into your place but i haven't sort of managed to get over there yet i <{><[>wanted to <.>just <[>well if you make one or um get one and just put it in my pigeon hole <{><[>and put a note on it i'll put it up somewhere <[>word right oh well i'll do that thanks pam i'll do one for the wharenui as well mind you i'm not sure if we've got a notice board there but i'll see what i can do but we'll certainly need one for te atawhai oh that would be good thank you i'll make a note of that um mm i haven't sort of been beyond the college although i've been to the <&>9:00 music department and it's so inaccessible i don't know <.>where <.>t what to how to start there so laughs i've had to leave it voc what do you mean oh sorry inaccessible to wheelchairs <{><[>and things yes <[>yes <.>it's <.>it's just <.>terri <.>it's well you know there's no way that anyone in a wheelchair or had difficulty walking could <{1><[1>could get up the get in there <{2><[2>so you know i know people with disabilities particularly LIKE music and want to be a part of it so <[1>mm <[2>yes right yes we <{><[>have that problem because i do most of my teaching in that block and we haven't got access to the sorts of equipment that other people have <[>mm tut right er you know we can't use videos and things because we can't get the trolley through <&>9:35