Christopher Hurling

I went to RAAF School Malaysia from Sep 1985 - Jan 1988. My first class room had thatched walls and no windows.

I lived at 23 Road 7. Not sure of the suburb, but it was cut into the side of a mountain about 2k from school. My friends and I spent out time riding our bikes around the block, building forts up in the mountains in the mud, eating Sugar Roti's from the guy with a truck on the corner of road 5 & 3 and watching movies at Aussie House set up by the Mason family.

When we left, the Hostie was barely used anymore. Movies stopped being shown there the charter before ours. It was really sad. I would of liked to of seen it during its hay day. I have three Austral and look at them all the time. Jason Martell (one of the other guests) used to chase my mates and I all the time. I went to scouts while I was there too. Though it died out in the final months. We shopped at Gamma a lot, and I remember McDonalds opened about three months before we left. Groups of families would go out too Batu Ferringi Beach to one the hotels and have huge Buffet Lunches. We'd then swim till dark. We'd often go over to Butterworth to the Boat Club and go sailing and water skiing.

Played soccer at the school every weekend. There where only four senior teams and four junior teams. Miss Hardie was my French teacher and also the first teacher I had a crush on. I was short too. The ladies at the canteen wouldn't serve me because they thought I was a primary school kid (dark blue shorts). I had to jump up to show them the colour of my shorts (white for high school) to prove I was in Yr 7.

Thanks for letting me share this with you all.