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|Title                 |GCSAusE27                                   |
|Number of people      |2                                           |
|Description           |A conversation between two Australians about|
|                      |going to Japan for the summer holiday.      |
|Participants          |Diana (20, Australia, female, L1 English,   |
|                      |AU,                                         |
|                      |Undergraduate, Student)                     |
|                      |Linda (28, Australia, female, L1 English,   |
|                      |AU,                                         |
|                      |Undergraduate, Student)                     |
|Date of recording     |March 2010                                  |
|Place of recording    |Brisbane                                    |
|Length of recording   |5 minutes 03 seconds                        |
|Contributor of        |Sayaka Kanamori                             |
|recording             |                                            |
|Length of transcript  |1,362 words, 7,303 characters (with spaces),|
|                      |150 lines(0:00-5:03)                        |
|Number of pages       |8                                           |
|Transcribers          |Sayaka Kanamori (March 2010)                |
|                      |                                            |
|Date transcription    |9 February 2012                             |
|last modified         |                                            |
|Creator               |Michael Haugh                               |

           1     D:   So yea I was thinking about um going to Japan for the
           summer
2      holidays um yeah these summer holidays
3     L:   Yeah and um (.) where you gonna go?
4     D:   Ah. I I don’t know kind of I wanna go back home hahaha to the
5       to my hometown over there [coz hum]
6     L:                                   [what’s name of it?]
7     D:    umm:: Maebachi 
8     L:    oh okay.
9           (( Diana (D) managed to express it by gestures))
10    D:   it’s kind of 3 hours north of Tokyo like on the other side
11         like Tokyo’s here and it’s almost like directly across the
12         other side of Japan
13    L:   Yeah
14    D:   And um yeah (.)I haven’t seen people there so long and I feel
15     like I haven’t um like talked to them for ages. I’m kind of
16     let our friendship like kind of like neglected like I never
17     write to them e-mail so I really wanna see all of them again
18    L:   Yeah
19    D:   [Humm]
20    L:   [and] how long will you go for?
21    D:    Ahhh:: probably about a month like coz uni finishes around
22     end of November so December (1.0) and umm (1.5) yea and so
23     December and January probably yeah
24     L:   Yeah
25     D:    Part of January
26     L:    Do you wanna do any sightseeing while you’re there?
27     D:    Ah yea definitely, I was thinking maybe like Kyoto and stuff
28     like that but um lot of people said that Kyoto isn’t that
29     (1.0) like people say that it’s cool but actually not when
30     we get there
31     L:    [Um::]
32     D:    [It’s just] like you see a few temples and that’s it
33     L:    Depends like [um - ]
34     D:                    [Have you been there?]
35     L:    I I went to Kyoto and umm if you do go, I recommend Fushimi
36     Inari
37          ((Fushimi Inari is the name of tample))
38     D:    Ahh:  o:kay
39     L:    It’s umm you know you might seen it in um both  and  travel  40
      stuff (1.0) you  know  um  the  temple  with  like  two  thousands  41
   Toori gates . all in go up the mountain
42     D:    Yea yeah
43     L:    That’s that’s that temple
44     D:    Ahhhh::: o::kay
45     L:    and it’s really
46     D:    Waoww::
47     L:    yeah
48     D:    Yeah coz a lot of people say like one of the weirdest things
49     about it is that kind of you’ve got a really old style home
50     right next to a Mc Donald’s or a seven eleven or something
51     it’s just kind of [two eras just merged together in one city ]
52     L:                       [Oh yeah I mean- ]
53     D:    But I suppose you get that all over Japan
54     L:    Yea I mean like if you go to Kyoto expecting to see Kyoto
55           two hundred years ago then you
56     D:    Haha yea like Samurai walking around
57     L:    but you know like and and (.) you have to look for the places
58     you wanna = yea go
59     D:    =Yea
60     L:    You have to look for them
61     D:    Yea
62     L:    But um
63           (1.0)
64     D:    Yep
65     D:    Hum but mainly I think the main reason I really wanna go
66     is  hum because ahh just to see people that I haven’t seen
67     in a while ↑rather than being a tourist I wasn’t it to be
68     and like kind of like going back home rather than being
69     tourist over there　[ yeah]
70     L:    yea [yeah] I just wondered if you you were gonna do a
71           little bit maybe
72     D:    Coz I really wanna see uhmm like Tokyo and like uhm do some
73           shopping and stuff like that not that I’ll have money
74     L:    Yeah
75           (2.0)
76     D:    Yeah
77           (2.5)
78     D:    Um umm. coz yea the shopping over there is like umm it seems
79     to be really kind of unique you know stuff that you can’t
80     get over here you know
81     L:    Yep
82           (4.0)
83           (( track goes pass- interrupting))
84     D:    Yea So humm::
85     L:    What you wanna buy?
86           (0.5)
87     D:    I don’t know a lot of stuff it seems like(.) you know they
88     have really cute accessories I’m not sure of I’ll be able
89     to you know afford or fit in my luggage you know like actual
90     clothes but
91     L:    Yea
92     D:    You know actually I’ve look for a::ges around here is um
93     a phone charm↑
94     L:    < wow ↑Wo::w yeah:: >
95     D:    you know what you put coz they have the most boring ones
96     over here its just like a strap you know and just a little
96     Nokia symbol or something
97     L:    Yea
98     D:    but over there. I really like you know whole like phone
99     charm culture that that they have like some of the phone
100    are just like you you feel like you couldn’t hold the phone
101    they’ve got many on there
102    L:    yea one good thing is to do to umz (0.5) you know like (1.0)
103     get heaps of presents to take to people
104    D:    Yeah
105    L:    and when you give them the presents you’ve got all this room
106      in your bag
107    D:    < Yeah yeah >
108    L:    to fit all the stuff that you buy hehe::
109    D:   yeah
110    L:   I was in Japanese class the other day we um saw one you know
111    of those
112         (( outside of sounds ))
113         Japanese culture um shows and they were
114    D:   wo:w okay
115    L:   talking about um like normal household items normal white
116         items being black
117     D:   in ah Japanese or in English 
118     L:   in Japanese 
119     D:   oh:: ok yep
120     L:   in Japan in Japan normal like
121     D:   okay yea yep
122     L:   normal everyday sort of TV program and they were saying like
123     it’s really fashionable now to get black toilet paper
124     L:   and [like you] go to the shop
125     D:        [WHAT!] 
126     L:   ↑And the guy：　in the shop they interviewed the guy in the
127    shop and they said oh you know it’s a really nice but um
128    present to give and we will like uh on way=
129     D:   =↑BaHahahaha↑ toilet paper
130          Hahahah　((both laugh))
131     L:    And like you know like ear buds and um
132     D:   Black ear buds
133     L:   Balck ear buds and uh. black udon they put [um um they put  134
      a tea spoon of]
135     D:                                                  [↑Wo::w I
136           wouldn’t eat that]
137     L:   Oh apparently like they put a tea spoon of charcoal in the
138    in the [mix and them ]
139     D:   Yeah
140     L:   and then the people who were eating it said it tastes pretty
141     good so I don’t know
142     D:   Hum I wonder if the taste changes coz of the colour like
143     it it wouldn’t , they’d just kind of be dying wouldn’t they??
144     L:   Hum:::  it might change sli:::ghtly   [but it’s like only
145     a tea spoon in like a ] whole bowl of mixed
146     D:   [ Hummm:::]
147     D:    yea
148     L:    But I don’t think it would be
149     D:    Yea
150     L:    Too bad it wouldn’t be over powering or anything