Charles Lomu

going to bed, reading the Bible and praying.

And when I was young, I used to love listening to her read, but then she would take the time to explain some things to me and explain to me the principles of the things that she was reading.

And she was just someone that I felt like was a teacher to me.

And that's one thing I always valued about my grandmother and my grandfather was that they would sit me down and teach me things.

And it was never done in the way where it was addressed with guilt or done in a way where it was forceful.

It was sit down, help me understand.

And it would hit my heart all the time and I would feel

feel like what I'd done was wrong.

I'd really feel it and it would make me feel like I didn't want to disappoint them.

Yeah, my grandmother, she came from very humble beginnings.

And so my grandmother's father, my great-grandfather had died when she was young.

And so my grandmother had to leave school when she was young to help take care of her siblings.

because her mother now had to take over her father's role and start travelling to the plantation to bring the food home.

And so she had to step into the mother's role and be the housewife to look after her younger siblings.

And so my grandmother was always appreciative of just the simple things, and she wasn't used to luxury.

So growing up, whenever we sat down to eat, and my cousins, we sat down to eat,

and my grandmother would feed us all, and we were full, if there was any food left over, my grandmother would sit there and eat everybody's leftovers.

Yeah, I think it was a challenge for my dad because I looked at my grandfather as my father and I yearned to be my grandfather all the time.

So when I came to live with my dad, I think the difference was my dad was feeling the pressure of working to provide for people

seven kids or just trying to provide for a household and living in the Western world.