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### Human: You were looking forward to it, moving.### Assistant: Yeah. Yeah. There are a lot of minor things that I don't tend to worry about, so. Yeah. Dad living with his girlfriend, that sort of stuff, they're minor things that I can live with. I've gotten used to it. So I'm not as skeptical and that sort of stuff. It was a bit weird at the start, but I've gotten used to it. Yeah. I just have to live with it because I don't want it to happen. It's going to happen maybe with mom. I'm not 100% sure. But it was eventually going to happen with either both |
### Human: Yep. Okay. So you feel like you're kind of getting more used to your dad's partner. It felt a bit inevitable that maybe one or both your parents might find a new partner?### Assistant: Yeah. |
### Human: Yep. Okay. And was that something that-- how did you feel, initially, about that idea?### Assistant: A bit weird. Someone else coming to your life, sort of getting used to them, it's very different, whether or not you're going to get along with them or not. I know a really close friend. His mom met someone else, and it's been absolute hell for him. So I was coming to that-- because his mom and dad split before my mom and dad split up. So you're going to their house. It's like, "Jeez, is that going to happen to me?" |
### Human: You're worried about that. Yeah.### Assistant: Yeah. It got better. I sort of got to know her a bit more. We went to school with her kids. We know them. They're local too, so. Yeah. |
### Human: So that's settled for him. So is that part of why you are like, "Oh, things will settle for me as well," or is that just quite a positive view on life, it sounds like? Is that more generally?### Assistant: Yeah. I think it's more of a positive view. |
### Human: Yeah. Cool. Cool. I just looked at the time. It's a little bit past 5:00. So I should probably let you go for the day. You probably already had a long day at school as well.### Assistant: Yeah. No, it's all right. We did a lot of sport today. We're going to Sovereign Hill on Monday. |
### Human: Oh, that'll be fun.### Assistant: Yeah. So we get-- |
### Human: Have you been before?### Assistant: --to look at how food, sweets, and candy and lots of stuff are- |
### Human: Oh, yeah. That is fun.### Assistant: --made and refrigeration over the years, what people ate because we're doing it for food science. So we're looking at the science behind food and what kind of fats you need, all that sort of stuff. So that's where we're going. We get to buy a few souvenirs. up there, which will be cool. |
### Human: Are you panning for gold as well?### Assistant: I'm not sure. I'd like to. If we don't, I'd like to go back up there again. And I think we do get time to do that sort of stuff. I think there's a mine that you can go down, and you find little nuggets. I'm not sure. But we don't get to do that. But I think we do get to do things. But if we don't get to do that, I can always go up with mom or dad and all that stuff. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. |
### Human: Yeah. That sounds really fun. I'll be interested to hear about that. Cool. Yeah. Maybe next session, we can have a think about maybe-- because we'd start with like, "Cool. Why do we focus on so much?" And I feel you'll give me a pretty good picture to start off with at least. Maybe we can decide on where we want to start next week as well in terms of some of that problem-solving if you want to or whatever. How does that sound?### Assistant: It sounds good. |
### Human: Yeah. Cool. All right. Thanks so much for coming in and being so open to chat with me today. You did very well. All right. Well, shall we head back out? And did your mom bring you today, or?### Assistant: Yeah, mom brought me today. |
### Human: Okay. Cool. Yeah. All right.### Assistant: I think I've got to wait for him. I think he might be-- |
### Human: Oh, what time does he finish?### Assistant: I have no idea. |
### Human: I'll find out soon.### Assistant: I think he finishes later than me. I'm not 100% sure, but I'll find out. |
### Human: Yeah. still working, hopefully. we can check that later. So I thought because we haven't seen each other for a while, maybe we'll do more of a catch-up, check in, see what you'd like to work on. What do you think?### Assistant: Sounds good. |
### Human: Sounds good. she updated me on the chat you had with her two weeks ago today.### Assistant: I think it was two weeks ago. Yeah. |
### Human: Anything you want to update me on, or you want to focus on today?### Assistant: This is always hard. |
### Human: It's a hard question, isn't it?### Assistant: Things to update and work on. Not a lot has gone on since the last time I saw him. I was talking about football. |
### Human: Yes. That was on my mind, that you might update me on football. Yeah.### Assistant: I got onto another squad for football. So even more football training. |
### Human: So update me on the routine with football because she was explaining it to me, and I was like, "I think i will have to explain this again, so it makes sense."### Assistant: Well, at the moment, Tuesday is Calder Cannons here in town. |
### Human: Calder. And what level is that on because you've got a few teams, don't you?### Assistant: Yeah. So Calder Cannons is going to TAC cups and that sort of stuff. |
### Human: Yeah. TAC cups. Yeah.### Assistant: And then we've got-- |
### Human: And that's training on a Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah.### Assistant: Wednesday is normal-- so normal club football in japan. |
### Human: Okay. Club football, yeah. Yeah.### Assistant: Thursday, I believe-- |
### Human: You're very busy.### Assistant: I believe Thursday is going to be-- because we've got into-- normally Thursday wasn't anything, but I think Thursday's going to-- because we got accepted into the NFL. So our club football is the Northern Football-- |
### Human: Okay. And is that you also, and yourself?### Assistant: Yeah. |
### Human: Yeah. Just checking it is the same, or if it's one of you. Yeah.### Assistant: Yeah. So the NFL's the league that our local football club's in. I think that's on a Thursday. I'm not 100% sure. |
### Human: We can always change it around.### Assistant: Yeah. Friday's club football again. |
### Human: So far. Yeah.### Assistant: So that's just training. |
### Human: And that's training. So that's training for Wednesdays and Fridays.### Assistant: Yeah. And coming up-- won't be for a while though, but Sunday's normally the time when we play club football games. |
### Human: Club football games. Yeah.### Assistant: But that's further into winter, so. |
### Human: So that's it.### Assistant: And that's further into March. |
### Human: Starts March. Yeah.### Assistant: Around about there. I think we have a practice match in March somewhere. |
### Human: And is all this practice year long, or is it there's breaks and it's--### Assistant: So Calder Cannons won't go through winter football season. |
### Human: It doesn't. It doesn't.### Assistant: So it doesn't. It goes through summer and spring. |
### Human: Spring. Yeah.### Assistant: And autumn and winter, they seem not to do it. They do most of it when it doesn't clash with club football and that sort of stuff. So-- |
### Human: Yeah. So do a lot of people that play club football also-- a part of the Calder Cannons, or is--### Assistant: Yeah. So what happens is you get invited. So people go out and look at your club, and you get invited down to Calder Cannons. And-- |
### Human: Yeah. This is what he was explaining to me.### Assistant: Yeah. And then they have-- they start off with a bunch of people, and then it gets down to a smaller group, and then a smaller group, and then a smaller group. And I think it gets down to a team. So I think it gets down to about 25 or something like that. And then 2 from there gets drafted to an NFL team. And then you play TAC cups. And then if you're good enough, then you go to play at AFL. |
### Human: So that's training for the TAC Cup, and they're breaking it down. Yeah. Yeah.### Assistant: So that only runs-- I'm pretty sure it only runs through summer and spring. It might run through autumn. I'm not sure. |
### Human: Yeah. Because you've got summer, spring, and that's a new thing.### Assistant: That was Calder Cannons and leading up to TAC Cup has been out there for a while. The only new thing that we knew about, I think it was the day after I came and saw it, I found out that I was in the NFL squad. |
### Human: Yes. So how long have you been in the Calder Cannons for?### Assistant: I've been in there for-- since last year I've been around about-- jeez. |
### Human: So 2016 or '15.### Assistant: It was 2016. I think it was close to the end of the year. Might have been September. |
### Human: Yeah. September. Yeah.### Assistant: Might be even earlier than that, but I think that's around about when. It's a bit confusing because I've got so many football dates already. |
### Human: Yeah. That's why I wrote it down for my own, just to be able to separate the different ones.### Assistant: Yeah. So Thursday and Monday and Saturday-- |
### Human: And Monday.### Assistant: --and Sunday at the moment are all free. |
### Human: So if we do that, Thursday is a question mark, and Saturday is a--### Assistant: Yeah. Thursday's not sure, and Sunday at the moment is, but getting further into winter is when Sunday will become club football, which is good. I'll start getting back into football. I enjoy playing because this is normally when-- coming back from holidays, I haven't done a lot of exercise. And then it comes back to here, and it's hard. You're all into it and that sort of stuff, but yeah, it's good to get into running and that sort of stuff and playing footie, which is always good. And that |
### Human: Yeah. How does it help with school stuff?### Assistant: School stuff. So I have three sessions of sport. Well, not three sessions of sport. I have three days. |
### Human: Yeah. And did you choose three days of sport? ??### Assistant: What happens is we get electives. So we get to pick certain sports and certain subjects that you want to do. I decided to do-- so I've got two electives. The two electives are on Tuesday, so today, and are also on Thursday. |
### Human: Yeah. So you have them twice on Tuesday, twice on Thursday. ---### Assistant: Yeah. So I've got a double session on Tuesday. So that's two sessions. And then I've got two sessions again on Thursday. And-- |
### Human: And what are the electives?### Assistant: The Tuesday elective is PE body works. So sort of looking at muscles, bones, how they work, and that sort of stuff. And then Thursday is-- that's sport and recreation. |
### Human: Sport and rec. Yeah.### Assistant: So that's looking at hosting events and all that sort of stuff. Sport in general. So what sport you do. And Wednesday, we've got three sessions, which are the last three, and we have team. So this is where we have people that go into teams, and we visit other schools. |
### Human: Oh, so I forgot. Is there a technical word for it still? I've forgotten what it was called.### Assistant: Interschool sports. |
### Human: That's interschool sports. Yes. Yeah. The name hasn't changed.### Assistant: Yeah. Yeah. So that's what we do on a Wednesday, and that's compulsory for everyone. |
### Human: And so if you don't like sport, you still have to play sport with interschool sports. Yeah.### Assistant: Well, you try out for a sport. And then if you don't want to play a sport, there's a thing where you stay back at school and do games and still do sport, but you're not going to other schools and that sort of stuff. So-- |
### Human: So obviously, you would be in the teams. Just a guess.### Assistant: Yeah. right. It's a bit boring being there because it's mostly the people that don't like to play sports and not necessarily trying. So I-- |
### Human: It's not their thing.### Assistant: --at least want to try and do stuff. So I try to get onto as many teams as I-- well, I try to get onto a team. |
### Human: Yeah. What team are you in?### Assistant: I'm in hockey boys. |
### Human: Hockey. How do you find hockey?### Assistant: It's interesting. |
### Human: Very different to--### Assistant: It's certainly different from football with all the hitting and all that sort of stuff. The power, it's in here-- the muscles in here. Flicking the ball and hitting. Yeah. It's interesting, all the different rules. I'm used to contact and-- |
### Human: Because there's no contact in hockey, isn't there. Yeah.### Assistant: --kicking, in hockey you're not allowed to. I mean, you're not allowed to push. You're not allowed to-- you can bump, but you can't come in and take them out and that sort of thing. There is a bit of-- there's certain boundaries to contact. You can if you're going for the ball, and you accidentally bump them a bit, but if you come in and knock them out of the whole thing, and then take the ball, that's against you, and the ball's given to them. And you're not allowed to touch it with your fo |
### Human: When you're used to using your feet.### Assistant: When you've got the stick on the ground, it sort of flicks up, and your feet are in the way. And you're not allowed to stand on top of the ball, that sort of stuff. Yeah. It's very, very different from what I'm used to because I'm used to going after the ball and that sort of stuff. Getting thrashed around and that sort of stuff. |
### Human: Nicer word thrashed around.### Assistant: Yeah. You can't touch it with your hand and all that sort of stuff. If it touches your-- because you've got shin pads so if it touches your shins and that sort of stuff. There's a lot of rules involved in it. So yeah, it took a bit to get used to. |
### Human: What made you choose hockey?### Assistant: Mom played it, and Mom's side cousins play hockey as well. Sometimes when we go up there, they'd be hitting around the hockey ball on a Sunday. So sometimes we'd play with the hockey ball, and I think I picked it up from there. It wasn't that hard. I got moving the ball around and hitting and all that sort of stuff, but yeah, so. |
### Human: It's a nice reason to give it a go.### Assistant: Yeah. Not our fault that I don't do school football. |
### Human: And why is that possible?### Assistant: Purely because I'm a year-- so I went to school earlier. So I was-- |
### Human: You're start of the year. You were born start of the year, so you went up a year, or you went a year earlier?### Assistant: I went a year earlier. So I'm a year younger than other people. So these guys are turning 16 this year, while I've turned 15 at the start of January. |
### Human: Yes. Yeah. So I was exactly the same, with a year earlier because I'm a January baby. So everyone's turning a year later, and you're like, "Yeah. I'm next year." Yeah.### Assistant: Yeah. And it's hard with football because what the school does-- all the school does is you've got-- 7s play by themselves. 8s and 9s play together. 10s, 11s, and 12s --- |
### Human: 10s, 11s, and 12s.### Assistant: Because I'm in year 10 this year. So we're up against year 11 and 12. So basically, I'm at year 9, going up against 10s, 11s, and 12s. So they're much-- |
### Human: Yeah. So you could almost be against 18-year-olds.### Assistant: Yeah. They're much bigger than me, and I don't play that because of that. Because they're older than me, like a year, I've been-- in micro football I've always played a year above, so it's not that hard, but playing against people that are like two, three years older than me, it's a bit harder too, and they're massive. We've moved down to our own age group this year, and hopefully, we stay down. I've gone from people being up here to being people around about here. So all of a sudden one of |
### Human: And it sounds like that's--### Assistant: --a little bit more important, I guess, than doing school football because I guess then-- |
### Human: That's what I thought you might say. Yeah.### Assistant: Yeah. The school football sort of doesn't set me up for if I wanted to do football after I leave school and that sort of stuff, so. |
### Human: Is that what you're thinking, or is that--?### Assistant: Well, if I do well in Calder Cannons and do end up getting up to the varsity squad, most likely you can play for Cannons and slowly , I'm pretty sure until you get drafted, So-- |
### Human: So could you get drafted at 15, or you need to be 18?### Assistant: I think you need to be-- you need to be 18 to be able to get drafted. I'm not sure. It might be 17, 18. I'm not 100% sure, but I know that two people do get drafted at the end of the year in 18s or 17s. So-- |
### Human: And you're playing under 15s or 16s?### Assistant: Yeah. I'm playing under 15s this year. |
### Human: Under 15s. Yeah.### Assistant: So with Calder Cannons, you have to play in your own age group. So there's no advantages and there's no disadvantages with age and size and all of that sort of stuff. So at the moment, we're in under 15s. So we've got a while to go, but what they do is after a few months, they'll look down with all the people at Calder Cannons and go, "All right. These people are really good. These people are all right. And these people are struggling to cope with all this sort of stuff." So then they drop i |
### Human: Wow. That's 100. Yeah.### Assistant: Yeah. They've done a lot of cuts and a lot of people have gone. |
### Human: And what's the catchment area? Do you have to live in it, or how does it--?### Assistant: The Calder Cannons is-- so there's Calder Cannons and then there's Northern Knights. I think the cut off of doing it is-- I don't think you can go past them. I think that's the outskirts of Calder Cannons because I'm pretty sure you and i are now Northern Knights. So I think that is as far as you can go. I'm not sure how far that stretches out both ways. I think people in town-- so there's northern knights that are in Calder Cannons. So no, I'm no |
### Human: Needs to be so that they can figure out who goes where.### Assistant: Yeah. There's certain clubs that go, and I'm pretty sure it's due to living as well. So wherever you live, I guess, that's how far. Yeah. It's not so much-- it's with playing at the club and how far you are away from that club. So yeah, but I'm not sure how far that spans out though. I'd be interested to know. But yeah, there's heaps of local people from there that are as far out as here, I'm pretty sure. |
### Human: That's a big distance.### Assistant: There's some people from school, and I'm pretty sure there's other people, but everyone has got different teams. So some teams aren't-- they don't have a football team. I'm pretty sure the only football team they have is the seniors, which is 18s and up. So-- actually, I think it is them. I'm not 100% sure, but yeah. So at the moment, if I do well with Calder Cannons and I keep going and keep sticking with the group, most likely looking out of there, football is |
### Human: And what's that about, that you've got to have a rebound?### Assistant: Football back then, my uncles did football, and at the-- |
### Human: Uncles. So more than one.### Assistant: Yeah. They didn't have to have-- so back then when they were doing it, schooling wasn't such a big thing back then. People sort of saw it as if you're good at football, you're most likely to be a football player. And if you didn't make it, well, then you had to find something else, and that made it hard. And when he went on to play in the TAC Cup when he finished school and that sort of stuff, he doesn't have any education at all, so he doesn't have a job or anything. So he's basically relie |
### Human: Having a backup.### Assistant: --there's a big thing about schooling amongst our stuff now in football. So Calder Cannons encourage us to do well at school, and at the moment, with how much stuff I'm doing, there's only a few days I get where I can come home and do homework and all that sort of stuff. I do say to my teachers, "Look, I've only got this amount of days," and i go down to two. Probably, it'll only go down to three, and probably down to two at the moment if Thursday does become AFL training. |
### Human: Yeah. Because then it's Monday and Saturday. Yeah. And what are the teachers like around supporting you?### Assistant: They say, "Do as much as you can on those days after school, or if you need, do it at lunchtime," which, yeah, I've got to find time during lunchtime and that sort of stuff to balance out school and sport. |
### Human: Would that be helpful for next time to sit down and do a bit of a timetable to see what it looks like for you, where you fit everything in?### Assistant: Yeah. Well, at the moment-- |
### Human: Just as a thought. You can say, "No. I'm not thinking that all could be helpful."### Assistant: And there are a few things that I'm behind on. A few assignments that I haven't been able to get done because of football. I guess it's hard when you do sport, especially the amount of sport I'm doing. |
### Human: And how many hours do you do? Just for me to get my head around.### Assistant: So Calder Cannons goes from 5:00 till 6:30. And club football goes 5:00 till 6:30. |
### Human: 5:00 till 6:30. Yeah.### Assistant: NFL one, I'm not sure about. And the other club football on Friday is the same time. And Sunday, normally games. I'm not 100% sure. I'm pretty sure about four quarters, I think. The last time it was 20-minute quarters. So probably looking at an hour and something. What? |
### Human: So if they're 20-minute quarters--### Assistant: There's 20-minute quarters and there's four of them. |
### Human: So 80-minute duration.### Assistant: That's 80 minutes. Yeah. So that's probably about an hour and 20. |
### Human: So at least an hour and a half.### Assistant: Yeah. Almost. |
### Human: 80 minutes.### Assistant: I think that gets up-- I'm not sure how many minutes we have. No. Because I've gone down. So we have the exact same. Yeah. |
### Human: Yeah. 80 minutes.### Assistant: I think. I know last year because I've stayed-- so last year I was under 15s, and this year I'm playing under 15s again. So I'm pretty sure it stays like that. I think the older you get the more changes you get on the ball and all that sort of stuff. So more times you come on the bench and that sort of stuff, and the higher it gets, I think they're looking at 25-minutes or something like that. So when you get older, they get-- I think when you get to about 18 it's 30-minute quarters and all |
### Human: That's a much longer game.### Assistant: Yeah. And that's, I think, what AFL-- I think AFL is close to that as well, so. But yeah, they get pretty long, but you get changed a lot more and that sort of stuff. So yeah, I think it's probably about an hour and a half almost you're looking at. |
### Human: Yeah. With the break and what. So 90 minutes. And then when you finish at 6:30, what time do you get home?### Assistant: Normally the time we get home-- how long would it take you? By the time you leave , it's about-- I'm not sure. I'm not sure how far the football stadium is because that's where we play, and that's where they play TAC cups and all that sort of stuff. I think it's around about 7:00ish. |
### Human: 7:00ish. Minutes to get home?### Assistant: It might be about-- |
### Human: Take about an hour to get home.### Assistant: Around about 6:50, 7 o'clock I'm pretty sure. So around about 7 o'clock we get home most of the time. And then straight after that, Mom makes tea, which we're looking at about-- normally Mom has stuff made. So it's probably about 20 minutes. So we start probably eating around about 7:30 each football night. |
### Human: Yeah. And then what happens after you eat, like the rest of the night?### Assistant: Normally either we watch TV or-- we either go to bed, depending on how tired I am. |
### Human: What time's bed? I'm pretty sure we spoke about it, but I don't remember.### Assistant: Normally, most times bed's around about 9:30, depending on how tired I am. |
### Human: So looking at that, there really isn't that much time to even fit in homework if you wanted to.### Assistant: And yeah, so it's really hard, especially because most of my people at the school I go to now, they-- |