Charles Lomu

And I lived there with them until I came back to Australia just before I started my schooling years.

What pictures of Tonga do you have in your head?

Can you remember much of that time at all?

I don't remember much of that time at all, but I remember when I went back again when I was eight with my grandmother and we went to go and look after my great-grandmother there.

But my grandmother told me a story of when she took me there after birth.

She was at the airport when we were changing flights.

And what had happened was because the flight was delayed to the next day, we had to stay in a hotel.

But that day at the airport, someone had done a bag snatch on her.

And she had all these food for me to feed me with.

And so they put us in a hotel that night.

And she said she just remembered that when she saw the bed at the hotel, when she walked in the hotel room and saw the bed, she felt like she was unworthy to sleep on the bed.

So she just put a sheet on the floor and then myself and her, we just laid there and had to sleep overnight on the floor.

And then we went on our way to Tonga after that.

How religious was she?

Very religious.

She was very religious.

I'd say...

more than religiously, she was very spiritual.

Because I found my grandmother was more about the doing than the doing what I'm trying to impress other people.

So she would always be the type of person that would wake up every morning reading the Bible.