1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: It's a big week in the life of year twelve. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: This is going to strike should we say, for me 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: year twelve. 4 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: And this is going to strike you next year, isn't it. 5 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: Yes, next year. 6 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 2: You'll be sitting here. 7 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: Sweating bullets. 8 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 3: If you've done what you've got to do, you'll be fine. 9 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 3: Isn't that how it works? You're raising adults. 10 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: Just got to make sure I'm getting around to doing 11 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: it in time. Don't leave it to the last minute. 12 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 3: Oh, we want to talk about how you celebrated finishing 13 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 3: high school. Did you have a Lever's Week per se 14 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 3: when we finished? 15 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: It was a while ago. 16 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a while ago. It wasn't It wasn't, Yes, 17 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: it was. It wasn't a. 18 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 3: So called leavers week per se, but we did we 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 3: tended to all go to rot Nest. Yes, and we 20 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 3: did all go to rot Nest and there was no 21 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: balloting of it, and then you know, having to I 22 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 3: just rang and booked and that's why we had about 23 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: nineteen girls in a six person. 24 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 2: Bungalow and no one asked any questions. It was just awesome. 25 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 3: Was done and there was several other schools representing there. 26 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: It was very busy and it was. It was one 27 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: of the greatest weeks of my life. 28 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: The week was brought to you by the Stop Making 29 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: Sense album and Stone A Romeos. I don't think we 30 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 3: listened to anything else. We just listened to those over 31 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 3: and over and over and over. I have never drunk 32 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 3: Jack Daniels since because there was an incident and I 33 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 3: learned my lesson and it was just fantastic. 34 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: But so how long did you go away for a week? 35 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 3: We went on Sunday, We went on the Sunday on 36 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 3: the ferry, probably went on the Temarere too, yes, And 37 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 3: we came back at lunchtime on the Friday, picked up by. 38 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: Our relief. 39 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 3: Because it just sun burned a little bit worse for wear. 40 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: It wasn't the thing it is now. There was no 41 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: trips to Bali, in fact backward, because I was a 42 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: year after you just pointing that out, and there was 43 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: not even down south, you know, like that that whole 44 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,639 Speaker 1: down south thing wasn't because I was a border Okay, 45 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: so I was from the bush and our leavers thing 46 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: from memory because I know some blokes did go across 47 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: the rotto. That was that was a thing by then. 48 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: But we all just congregated at a shearing shed outside 49 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 1: of Catanning, okay, because no one had a lot of time. 50 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: Harvest was on, you see, there were a lot of 51 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: utes and it was just like a mini BNS and 52 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: it was like a one night only thing. Big party 53 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: went all night and then everybody went home the day 54 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: after and that was it. 55 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: That's why we could have been six hours. 56 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: Actually for me, I think it was about two hours 57 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: away actually, so, but it's very different now. 58 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: It's very different. It's very organized, it's very control. 59 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 3: It's probably a good thing. But are you currently sitting 60 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,399 Speaker 3: there worrying because yours is off down down at Dunsborough 61 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 3: or wherever that wristbands and it's all organized. 62 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: It is organized, I'll give them that. 63 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: Or how did you celebrate wrapping up school? Jan On 64 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 2: the text says, I still vividly. 65 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 3: Remember walking home from my final exam, thinking, well, that's it. 66 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 3: I'll never be back to hang out with all my 67 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: friends each day. It was a very empty feeling and 68 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 3: still brings a tear as I write this fifty four 69 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: years later. She says, I've loved seeing all the kids 70 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 3: down here in Bustleton, enjoying that company for one last 71 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 3: week of fun. 72 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: That's a nice way of looking at it. Jan it 73 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: is because you're right, it is such a it's a 74 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: closure in your life. 75 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 3: Is one hundred like the probably the most major closure 76 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 3: of your. 77 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 2: Life so far? 78 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: Absolutely, Pete, Yeah, can stereo? How did you let loose 79 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: after school? 80 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 4: Hey? Get Lisa and Russell has a garden? Right? 81 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: Good? 82 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 5: Well, I was one of. 83 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 4: These fortunate people. 84 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 5: I lived over on the East Coast then, and I 85 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 5: actually did Grade twelve twice. I did it in eighty 86 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 5: nine and ninety so. But I finally remember finishing and 87 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 5: using out after drinking a full one leader bottle of 88 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 5: Southern Comforty. 89 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 4: Never touched again. 90 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: Lessons hard, don't we. 91 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 5: It's just it's just evil stuff, that's what that is. 92 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 5: But we went we went to we got any cars 93 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 5: loaded after cars and went down to from the Sunshine 94 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 5: Cash we drove down to Cleveland and Brisbane and caught 95 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 5: the ferry across the strap Bake Island. And they had 96 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,119 Speaker 5: a pretty amazing drunk filled week. 97 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 4: But funnily. 98 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 5: So, there was two things at the end of each 99 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 5: each night. Obviously there was always lots of left over alcohol. 100 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 5: Everybody pass out, so the next morning we'd wake up, 101 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 5: we get fruit loops flakes and put put them in 102 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 5: a bowl and then left over. 103 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: Oh god, well, no, Pete, I'm hoping you have learned 104 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: some lessons from that week, and you know you. 105 00:04:53,520 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 4: Wow, but I might not be wiser. There you go, 106 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 4: but we'd have to so we'd have to drink that bowl. 107 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, alcohol and front loops. Yeah. And then at the 108 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 5: end of the week, I remember. 109 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 4: In a drunken blur that somehow. 110 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 5: Our friends got left over bits of rubbish or something 111 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 5: in this caravan that was on the beach and someone decided. 112 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: To set it on fire hole in the bottom of 113 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 4: the caravan. 114 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: No, oh, peace, please, this is not the week carriage. 115 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: But take you. 116 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: Please, don't take notes. I'm surprised that Pete even remembers 117 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: this week. To be honest with you. 118 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 3: I know you can't remember whether hes or cool flakes. 119 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: On theses that the caravan was no good after the week. Look, 120 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: let us celebrate, yeah, let us know how you did 121 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: leave us week back in your day. 122 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: We've got a text from Stephen who said, when I 123 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: left year ten in nineteen eighty nine at Como High, 124 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 2: we didn't do anything exciting. We just signed each other's 125 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: shirts and that was it. 126 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: Oh, that was that was actually a big thing, mind 127 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: you he left, that's the thing. Yeah, but that wasn't 128 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: as unusual back then, was it? 129 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 2: No? 130 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: Very unusual? 131 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 3: Non? 132 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 2: No, you went to tech. 133 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. 134 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 3: Paul in jodle Up has said us some photos of 135 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: levers in Bustleton last year when he and his kids. 136 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: I think we're down there fishing and they came across 137 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 3: a bunch of shall we say, jolly jolly year twelves 138 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 3: having a good time. 139 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: They were looking for photos with them and they were 140 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: looking to catch something, but I think it was a fish. 141 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: It looks like they might have caught a cold. 142 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: They looked happy though, because. 143 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 2: There was a stormfront coming and they don't have their 144 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 2: shoes on. 145 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: No, they looked happy. But the school's done for all 146 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: the year twelves, former year twelves. 147 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 3: Now they're enjoying themselves very sensibly. Right as we speak, 148 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 3: right now, they'll be getting open, making a bit of 149 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 3: a smashed avocado or toast. 150 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: Most of them are. Actually they probably. 151 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: Are because they are a kind of different breed where 152 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 3: we went, well, they are well, speak for yourself, yeah, 153 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 3: I should shouldn't know, speak for myself and Peter Cannington. 154 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 3: But Paul from Ball Divers on the text said I 155 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 3: went to northlak High. 156 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: And I left at the end of year nine for apprenticeship. 157 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 2: So let's buggerall. 158 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: That's even earlier than I knew plenty that would leave 159 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: at the end of year ten. But year nine, year 160 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: nine is. 161 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 2: For an apprenticeship, isn't it It is? 162 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: And you definitely get no leavers celebration for. 163 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 3: The end of year job security Darren and Paul Kennedy says, 164 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 3: back in the eighties we did the vaseline under the 165 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 3: hand was on the stairs, the wily been on top 166 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 3: of the flat, and we picked up the gardener's Mighty Boy. 167 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 2: You should put it in between two ballards. 168 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: Zooky Mighty Boy, because you could do it with one 169 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: of those three people. 170 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 2: All classic eighties shenanigans. 171 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 3: But we were talking about Paul and Ball Divers leaving 172 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 3: at the end of year nine for an apprenticeship and 173 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: saying it's leaving for an apprenticeship. 174 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: These days it's probably a good idea because it's a 175 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: pretty good job security. 176 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 3: And he said, just a little follow up to that, 177 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 3: he got his trade certificate in spray painting He's currently 178 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 3: a Forkliffe mechanic. He's also been a bouncer for thirty years, 179 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 3: worked in servos, pizza shops, swingers clubs. 180 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: He's any stune but no. 181 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: Things have gone much better than school. We love it.