Glenn Jarvis

Hello, Richard.

A lot of running around in the jungle, land crabs everywhere.

The stench when they all got run over right outside the school was horrendous.

Yeah, the food was fantastic.

No sausage rolls and pies at the canteen.

It was all curry and lots of friends with the Chinese and Malay community as well.

It was a bit of a shock to the system.

I wasn't a great sportsman or anything, so that was pretty big at Queanbeyan High, so I was more of a hang out with the girls down at the music rooms kind of a guy.

Wrote a bit of poetry, but I had some good friends at Queanbeyan High and it's funny, a lot of us are still really good friends from back then.

I had part-time jobs.

I used to work at Cannons, Food Barn, Fishwick, throwing boxes around on the weekends.

A lot of my friends used to ride motorbikes out the back of Queanbeyan.

There was a lot of, like, as we got older, cruising around in cars at night.

Was it a pretty car-obsessed culture?

It was, yeah.

There was a lot of... Someone once said that cars are a very safe topic of conversation in Queanbeyan.

What were you planning to do when you left school then?

I was planning during my school years to become a pilot.

I'd read a lot of Biggles books when I was a young fella and I kind of liked his world-weary attitude to life, even though he was only about 19 or something in the books.

When you went to uni, what did you study then?