Gellibrand client Corey Steadman loves public transport to the CBD, sharing a joke, and smashing strikes at tenpin bowling.
If you’re catching the bus with Gellibrand client Corey Steadman, there’s no need to check the timetable on your phone or at the stop. Corey has the timetables memorised. Which ones? I ask him when I meet him at his shared house. “All of them”, he replies. I tell him that’s an amazing skill and he thanks me.
Corey is a polite young man who, yes, can get excited from time to time, but he’s aware of that and has plenty of support to ensure he manages his emotions. But who wouldn’t be excited in August, with AFL finals just around the corner, and his beloved Bulldogs set for September action? Corey says he goes to the games, but he has no particular favourite player.
“I like them all,” he says. Of course, getting to Marvel Stadium– and to the CBD, his favourite place to visit – involves catching public transport. “I love it,” Corey says, adding that train trips are relaxing and that, on his way, he likes copying the loudspeaker announcements he hears in the carriage. If he hears nothing, then that is what he calls a carriage on ‘mute’.
Once he’s in the CBD, Corey is known for his love of tenpin bowling. “It’s fun when I get a strike,” he says, adding that he gets plenty of them.
Corey has been a Gellibrand client for nine years since he moved into his shared house in 2015, where he enjoys life with his housemates. He says the best things about Gellibrand are the team members who support him and getting to go on outings and holidays.
“I went to Coffs Harbour last year on the plane,” he recalls, “and I saw dolphins and played golf.” When asked where he wants to go on holidays next, he says back to NSW would be great.
Corey loves a joke and a laugh so I ask him if he’s got a gag for me. “How do you make a tissue dance?” he asks. I say, I don’t know. “You put a little boogie in it!” I haven’t heard that one before so we’re both laughing as one of his housemates brings me a coffee. Corey tells me he loves coffee and has a cup once a day.
“I love having a chat over a coffee,” he tells me, a chat that is usually with a Gellibrand team member about what’s been happening in his life and theirs. Corey regularly asks after the wellbeing of plenty of team members – and their pets!
Gardening is another part of life at Gellibrand that Corey is enjoying more and more. Every Friday at Mary Burbidge Centre, Corey can be found digging and watering, getting those vegies ready for cooking later. Tonight, it’s Corey’s turn to cook and the plan is for him to whip up a Burrito bowl. He likes to cook and eat healthily, but he tells me he’s partial to the occasional treat.
“I sometimes eat McDonald’s when I’m in the city!”
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