<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>7:56 you know <.>and and i think that we're paying we should be up demonstrating and saying why <&>8:00 aren't we getting what <.>we we're paying for but they're also frightened they're frightened about their jobs they're frightened about their position they're frightened that they might stop them sitting states it's a really bad buzz eh oh yeah yeah i actually would like to have put through a lot of complaints but i won't do it till i've finished <{><[>because i don't want my education being jeopardised because i stand up for my rights <[>mm yeah but i will be standing up for my rights when you <{><[>finish <[>when i finish but that's what <{><[>jake hanson said <[>but why should we have to wait yeah till we finish yeah <.>and and i reckon that they should be done by the serious fraud squad because <.>they're they're taking our money under false pretences because they're not actually teaching us what they say in their manifestos that they'll do <&>inaudible section seven seconds i <.>have i have no hesitation and i enjoy being <.>ab because i like <.>s selfmotivation and i feel really encouraged <&>9:00 and i learn from doing things myself and researching literature for myself i find that really encouraging that i can do that if i wasn't given that opportunity yes but maybe i could wait till i was finished and do all that <.>re literature research yeah it's <{1><[1>not that that <{2><[2>you need <[1><.>and <[2>to be <.>given to be given the information for the amount of money we pay <{><[>would be why <[>yeah yeah but you see that's <{><[><.>their <[>LAST year was pretty good this year's got a real switch to it oh it's stink man it's really stink but <.>th there's there's also there's a real element of disadvantage voc because maori students like me you know i've got this sociological assignment and i still can't use the library and every time i go there i think oh god it's the same at the university orewa says to me everybody comes to him and i says oh you done the reading man and he says yes <.>here's <.>here's and he hands out all <.>the the photocopying and stuff because they don't know how to use the library <,> and why don't they know how to use the library because nobody shows them how to use <&>10:00 it and they're too scared to ask the <{1><[1>basics and stuff <,,><&>4 <.>and <{2><[2>and the photocopy machine blows up every time they use it <[1>coughs <[2>I actually just run into the library run into the library yeah it does eh yeah <{><[>it's a hassle doing that i run into the library run up to the librarian and say have you got any books on t b <[>laughs yeah but I <{><[>do that too but they're getting hoha with me now you know and <.>they <.>s they sort of look at me and i think here i am third year and i don't even know how to use the library <[>but i <.>don't well i <.>watched a classic example is we were given an assignment in class <,> three of us were together a tokelauan a maori and a half caste right what happened was we went along we sat outside and we had a big gas and in about twenty minutes we <.>had we had all the information we needed for our assignment yeah from just sharing with each other <,> but they had put one academic standard we HAD to meet and that was go to the library and find <&>11:00 all the books possible on the topic we had discussed <,> what happened was we went to the library we tapped <.>in <,> tapped into the computer subject exercise saw sixty six books come up so wrote sixty six books are available made up the names of what some of them might <{1><[1>be ran upstairs looked at some journals saw that they had exercises in them for the elderly so wrote <,> gerontological journals have exercise programmes in it laughed put twenty one books and then ran back to class and we had finished so to meet the <.>acate the academic standard what we had done <,> was we had used our initiative as well without using the proper resources <{2><[2>available in <.>the <[1>laughs <[2>yeah well you see that's what i do <{1><[1>that's what most of the people do they <.>go but then they say to me don't they <&>12:00 take you on a tour and i can't <{2><[2>say oh <[1>library <[2>oh they do look i'm so dumb i don't understand <.>this this sort of technical way you talk or what you do and i have to actually physically be shown not once i have to physically be shown <{1><[1>two or three or FOUR TIMES how to do it and i'll NEVER pick it up because there's never anybody there to show me and <.>y of course you take it in you just think oh well you're just so dumb you know <{2><[2>how can <.>i <[1>maybe twice or yeah <[2>no well you're NOT dumb what happens is people have different capabilities of learning and maybe yours is to <.>be i know that you have skill from being shown how to do something <.>you you automatically <,> are able to do it later as long as it's reinforced <{><[>and i observed that when we were doing the heart <[>mm mm okay you weren't familiar with it but once <.>we we talked about it and repeated it i stood in front of you i <.>s i went voc over here you were quite capable of doing it not a problem and thinking it through and some people have <&>13:00 difficulty in areas and that is maybe some are visual some are audio some <.>are but you know all that stuff that i write you know i have a real <{><[>writing talent <.>and and people could look at that and think oh this is a really clever woman and yet i'm so stupid <[>you write yeah you write beautifully no you're not stupid <,> i don't think you're stupid <{1><[1>why do you think you're <{2><[2>stupid <[1>then <.>why <[2>tell me about your mum oh my mum laughs that's a very good topic isn't it yeah well she's well yeah she's going to auckland this weekend they're going to a family reunion my dad's driving and mum's going with him my sister's flying up to meet them and it's a reunion of our family because we thought we originated from england which we did my um great grandfather was from england but we found out that their children yeah <&>14:00 the mother <.>married oh HE <.>married when he came over from england my <.>gr great grandfather he married a ngapuhi and we've only just found <{><[>out that we have ties into ngapuhi through our great grandmother <[>oh oh maybe that's where the eyes come from oh maybe no they <.>ch oh no they don't <{><[>word <[>HEY piki's daughter is working there what's SHE doing she's working <.>there er she's working with piki teaching oh is she cos you know her eh marie yeah i know her atahua ae mm <,> tino <{><[>atahua <[>mm mm mm so have you had her yeah <.>what what did she teach you oh she just said something or other about cervical smears and everybody yawned and said ho hum you know tell us something we don't know mm right yeah what about YOUR mum how's your mum you went up to see her recently <{><[>didn't you <[>oh she's good is she it's amazing we did <.>th we did this really depressing thing on old age you know and we saw <&>15:00 these people that were stuck in homes and so depressed and they showed <.>w some woman <.>who who was sixty and my mother's seventy five and she looks ten years younger than this woman it was amazing what were you gonna say i was gonna tell you yesterday i didn't tell you about our exercise programme eh yeah? moumou time? no KAORE yesterday we presented our education package <{><[>but i didn't get to tell you about that our education package and rowena came in to observe <[>yeah voc but we had anticipated five to eight patients coming to the session so we set up our room yeah um and all of a sudden i went off and got voc dressed in aerobic gear tut and came back and had all the education package all laid out we had these big visual posters for the um deaf and we had new music for the um blind mm and what happens is the impact it had on the <&>16:00 home was amazing we ended up with twenty nine out of forty residents running into the room <{><[>laughs <[><.>one one old dear she informed me that she was trying to skip her shower her regular routine shower that she has on a wednesday yeah but the nurse said NO NO NO you've GOT TO have your shower so she took her in the shower and <.>she she said she knew that it was getting close to the time that we were presenting our package so she RACED back to her room she only got HALF dressed she left her stockings off and all her jewellery and she RACED downstairs by the time she got into us <,> tut she was really breathless but she was so excited that she <.>had <,> she was so excited that she had yeah come down to the session yeah the session was just so satisfying yeah <{><[>yeah <[>for me you know kuia and kaumatua are very valuable people yeah they are our <.>e <{1><[1>our eyes <{2><[2>our ears <&>17:00 <[1>yeah <[2>yeah yeah ae <{><[>ae <[>you know they're <{><[>just so valuable <[>yeah and so to be able to empower them with the knowledge that we did yeah yeah you know but you <.>re but they don't have enough for these people eh <&>17:14 <&>tape goes funny for five seconds <&>17:19 oh they don't have enough what happened was we saw people that were not <.>even usually sit around and sulk and are really angry in their wheelchairs at this home yeah they were ROCKING to the music we had this <.>instr we had instrumental music and our wind up we used the poi mm maori poi mum <.>s posted them oh my darling mummy posted the pois down by the courier and they got <.>brought <&>pronounced bought specially brought <&>pronounced bought to the school <{1><[1>on tuesday dropped off and <.>we <,> we um put on <{2><[2>which is a farewell song see you later we're going home put it on and <.>we i gave the pois on purpose to the men <[1>oh good yeah <[2>oh yeah yeah yeah i know yeah <&>18:00 yeah and the women did finger <{><[>exercises <[>yeah yeah it was amazing the men were SWINGING these pois about and there was real signs of emotions being aroused <{><[>and they were just amazing it was a real sense of satisfaction watching them reminisce and have enjoyment and then once we had finished the programme they were all diving in and saying we saw those young children jumping out of them you know like <[>yeah mm in the olden days that they used to have this huge music was really coming back to them and tears of joy and happiness they were wonderful i just voc came out of there buzzing yeah that <.>was that is something that i must say about our school that i gained personal satisfaction <,,> and felt really good about it mm so oh no that's something you've got to be really pleased about them going to these schools right is the satisfaction YOU gain from what you give <{><[>as a person to the people you are dealing with <[>mm mm you know <.>i i mean look at you looking after the lady you looked after <{1><[1>in the cardiac ward you felt that sense of aura with her affiliation and the rapport you had with her the sharing she gave you that <{2><[2>she wouldn't give anybody else <[1>mm mm <[2>mm mm mm <&>19:28