Somehow I'm in Kenya Again

[@BonnieM-e8l]

Beautifully documented experience! Nolstagia at its best. Karibu Kenya!

[@wazungus]

Although born in Tanganyika, as was my mother, I too grew up in Nairobi in the '60s. My parents lived in Lavington, and I boarded at Kenton College. How lucky we are to have experienced our childhood in Kenya.

[@marabouthomas]

We are indeed lucky. I don't take it for granted at all. :)

[@Bjorn-h4e]

You mean Kenton college has been in existence since the 80s?

[@catherinecege8659]

This is an award- winning documentary.🎉

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you for the encouragement!

[@neckbon3307]

TRULY AMAZING STORYTELLING THE SOUND EFFECTS ARE ON ANOTHER LEVEL

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! Those in-ear microphones really transport you to the location.

[@Colourbash]

Great storytelling. As a Kenyan who lives in the US, Kenyans feel like Kenya is special as well, I don't know what it is. Just so you know 😊 I'm moving back for good this summer.

[@marabouthomas]

It is great to hear from Kenyans living in the US who appreciate how special Kenya is. :)

[@papses]

From a Kenyan residing in the U.S, you are every part as Kenyan as we are. It's an imperfect but perfect country. What a wholesome video and am glad you chose to be going back every now and then. Thanks for sharing that experience with us, that was magical...perfectly shot, and narrated!

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you so much for the kind words! It is great to hear feedback from a Kenyan who is living in the US.

[@korissaebersole4427]

Your narration is perfect, bringing tears to my eyes! It’s hard to explain the ‘obsession’ with Kenya to those who have never been. My first time in Kenya with my husband I felt at home.

[@robertquene2173]

Love this video. I was born in Kenya as well, and left when I was 10. Luckily I went back in 1989 when I was 23 years old and did an internship for 3 months at the Nairobi Museum. This video brought back a lot of memories! Thanks for posting!

[@marabouthomas]

Wow! What a great homecoming treat for you to be able to do an internship at the museum. :)

[@felixmakinda7689]

Welcome to Kenya 🇰🇪🖤. I can just imagine the detachment from what you knew as home.

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! I am so happy to have come full circle.

[@highestvault4584]

first video after over 7 years. waoh. i thought it would be a vlog but i love the way you put together the storyline and the very well done edits. Welcome home🇰🇪

[@jmcoxjr]

This is so well done. It brings back a lot of my own memories of Kenya. I remember that 5-year-old Matt and spending time in your home and you and mine in Nairobi. Whenever I got discouraged in Nairobi, I would go to your father's shop at the headquarters and talk with him as he worked on an engine or an engine part. He had more spiritual depth than all the staff that I knew. I thank God for the Thomases and knowing all of you. Thanks for the memories.

[@maiyo775]

This is incredibly amazing and so nostlagic

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! I'm glad it is nostalgic for other people too! :)

[@dblaze9757]

You nailed the music lmao… i believe you

[@bettygatitu303]

Such a good story, love every bit of it.❤❤

[@Tuiyacooking]

Lovely narration!

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana!

[@stephenwomack2698]

Thank you so much for making this video. The brilliant idea to include sound affected me more than I could have anticipated - maybe as much as the pictures themselves. I even saw myself in one of the pictures and teared up in a few places. I still vividly remember us sliding down the hills and poking into caves in Thieves Forest. This is a masterpiece for all the Rosslyn kids.

[@marabouthomas]

I'm so happy you found this video! I had been holding off making it public for the longest time, but now I'm really glad I let it out into the world. I'm happy I could take you back to those old stomping grounds. Thank you for adventuring with me back in the day!

[@danielbarasa9626]

This is awesome!!

[@ZamkwelaChilwa6246]

You are a good narrator your stories are interesting your video editing skills is on point👌🏻. Karibu Kenya 🇰🇪 hakuna matata!🙏

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! I appreciate the feedback. :)

[@davieskelmen7125]

welcome home. My first born son is a Rosslyn alumni and my youngest is an RVA junior.

[@marabouthomas]

Nice! :)

[@jambatvee3803]

😂😂😂 you’re a hilarious story teller. As a Kenyan in the US for about 12 years now, I totally understand how hard it is to erase my homeland from my mind. It’s an addictive piece of earth

[@marabouthomas]

It's so cool to hear from Kenyans who are living in the US now. I hope this video gave you some good Kenya feelings. 12 years is a long time to be away! :)

[@leahsdaughter1585]

Wow Amazing story telling

[@zedekiahkwame640]

Good story told 🙏‼️👌

[@AnneReingold]

This is poetry! The visuals, sounds, music, your personal story. Thank you for sharing it all!

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you for the positive feedback!

[@TheWellnessCapital]

You are a living legend. Karibu nyumbani

[@marabouthomas]

asante sana! I felt very welcomed. :)

[@rachelh690]

This was beautifully done. I graduated from RVA and haven't been back since then - and I can relate to so much of what you describe here. Sincere thanks for sharing this.

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! It feels really great to hear from people who grew up in Kenya / went to RVA, but haven't been back since, who understand these feelings! :)

[@Johndoe1y]

Well told story. I loved every bit of it. Kenyan.

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! I love getting to hear from Kenyans who have found this video and hearing their feedback, it is greatly appreciated. :)

[@kimkimani1284]

Very beautifully narrated. Best wishes to you.

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you!

[@amandataylor5315]

Awesome video! Fantastic to walk through your presentation re-living a place I called 'home' for almost 30 years. Thank you for sharing.

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! It makes me really happy to hear this from people who used to live in Kenya, especially from someone who lived there as long as you did. :)

[@vincentmacharia]

Bro this edit is hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@marabouthomas]

Haha, thank you!

[@neztranez9455]

I am sat here sobbing with joy for you and for Michelle and a little bit for myself as I have not been back to Kenya since 1995. This brought me right back to my childhood and though I know time marches on, I am blissfully content in the realization that my second home has not changed as much as I assume it had. The sights the sounds, the places and the people... Thank you, wholeheartedly, for allowing us to vicariously join you guys on this epic journey.

[@marabouthomas]

I'm so glad you could vicariously join us! I too was really surprised how much Kenya was still Kenya, and just really dang happy and grateful to have been given the gift to go back and immerse myself in it. Thank you so much for your message, I'm super happy this video was beneficial for you.

[@NerdNovaTech]

Your always welcome back home ❤❤❤

[@marabouthomas]

I felt welcomed! :)

[@timmie-b8d]

You are kenyan, born and bred, kenya is your home it will call you back sooner or later, no mater how long it takes

[@africaine4889]

Hm

[@nancyauma3374]

We love you right back. Kenya loves you too.

[@marabouthomas]

awe! asante sana!

[@estherkinene8580]

Beautiful,you are definitely Kenyan at heart

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana!

[@mmky]

Wow - so well narrated 👌🏾👌🏾🇰🇪🇰🇪

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you!

[@JamleckMuriuki]

Poetic! Loved every minute of it

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you so much!

[@IzzoForex]

After watching this vlog...I've concluded that Kenya is more than a location. Its a vibe you carry everywhere with you. Karibu nyumbani tena

[@marabouthomas]

It is so much more than a location. :) Asante sana!

[@yahushuahamashiachsalvagedall]

@marabouthomas @IzzoForex ..There nothing special, here, its a oint, like any other..Never was it special before, why all over sudden is it special now, it is because of typological "discovery."..We be feeling a way about that your discovery. ..They have forced upon the continent, borders, you practically have a disunification of the continent manager mister wall trump...Armed bandits stationed at border patrol regions, starkly preventing liberties....Emphatically what these tourists are reiterating is a nice prison, ghana, nice demarcated prison new guinea, nice demarcated prison Democratic republic, nice prison Zimbabwe or zambia.. Whatever is envisioned here just beats us, like for realah, yall already have stolen artifacts, admire those within infamous new york museums...Take a tour of goldman sachs, federal reserve, rockafella reserves..It may be kronenfeld bank, wall street, cayman islands, or jp Morgan replicas of cheap guns, sold to the union.Thugged gold props up the dollar, claiming everything is affordable while incessantly moving to other nations..Go look at Haitian gold, its all there, thugged propped up pounds and sterling pounds, akl available rendering you automatic expatriate status, since you all have the big cash from massacres and pilferage. Its never immigrants just like those who thugged texas, never that, these are expatriates..The former posed as "missionaries" current gentrification enclaves want to pillage the joint, erode culture, & devastate outstanding cultures. The beastly mark is yalls parasitic[kkk] perpetuation of continental disunification.. Somebody said there are no white people in heaven, that's not surprising since you keep broadcasting deception about white jesus....You have perpetrated all this crime, but must return, for more planetary pervasiveness..The likes of meg Whitman controlling ICC criminals, are forcing us all into environments that are grappling with an app which at 8 o'clock must show interacial hookups, so that on people's minds, thats the first thing...That's the way black people matter, they ought to be there to prolong the tenure of planet earth destroyers, beyond expiration..People are forced to be intentional eg pop the balloon, but even pop the balloon, is featuring trannies, pushing agendas onto the continent..Sudanese flock to the west, because trump bombed their joint, somalis and other nilotes forced into the states, try to hook up with pales for citizenship, its not because they want...Thats how you operate speeading yourselves...Nothing is beneath these, even families know how long a basketballer is, so their daughters and pale--lings can hook up with them.Trump knows all crimes wantonly perpetrated..Building an iron dome using congolese ardous labour, slave labour, war ravaged labour, raw copper and other minerals stored at baltimore port, establishes their so called strongest military, supoorted by black face, austin, langley, or quinton, Marcielite harris, war crininal confolezza rjce, war criminal susan rice, war criminal Obama.....The golden rule cannot apply to the west because they stole planet earth's gold, using undocumented rothchilds, and rockafellas, confabulated an idol and violated it...That's why you all have the mindsets you have..."Oooo the place has never changed, (kkk)oloniser playground.."..Baltimore is not famous for any type of slavery, that's why all of you accumulate slave labour copper there...Its obviously copper and other minerals...Western elements build an iron dome, from slave labour, there's no iron dome against angels..Its not like people want be in west, never that, the west is consistently destroying native regions, only for Trump to chase many more blackxicans..You except the us to do unnecessary things eg run haitian colonization, run haitian revolutions, guard divided states embassies that ought not to be in existence, and make it easier for the west to steal more hatian gold, silver and iridium for its iron dome..So trump steals our bread for his iron dome...We had brutish British, pillaging, and massacring multitudes, after burying many..Subdivision bonanzas of demon creatures, demoncrats, arabians, chinese, satans or worse still brutality riddled brackishness of British, relative versions, or far worse than that shits--srael , or far worse than that westerners, Canadians, hiltahs children the cia man, and the top most human trafikking enclaves on the planet are not reqiured..After sending you this guess what video pops up, Somali pirates, coincialgorithmdense....

[@ProfoundLiving]

We love you guys. Beautiful narration. Karibu Kenya

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana!

[@auntievonnie]

New subscriber! Great story telling! I was transported to what makes Africa a place which is so captivating to anyone lucky enough to have experienced it!

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed my gushing ode to the excessively captivating Kenya. :)

[@auntievonnie]

@ My pleasure! Looking forward to more of the same in the future!

[@EscapeGeek]

Welcome back to Kenya 😊

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! I am so grateful I got to return!

[@smithereens874]

Thanks for sharing this! My last time to Kenya was 42 years ago. You have put to words so many feelings I have felt. (Another RVAite)

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you so much for this note! It's so good to connect with others who have had similar upbringings, who understand these feelings!

[@sarahjowi8822]

Love this

[@cheromercy120]

Welcome to Kenya ❤, it's been years since I have been home from abroad I really know I will have the same excitement visiting all the places i grew up, the nostalgia 😢, i can relate with you on this

[@marabouthomas]

I'm excited for you to get to revisit your home and feel all the feels! It is the best!

[@Onit-Vision]

Enjoyed this video!

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you!

[@bethra.flowers]

❤❤❤ what a treat! Thank you for sharing.

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@shirleywolf9917]

Matthew Your KZbin presentation was fabulous. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it soooo much.

[@marabouthomas]

Thanks for watching! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video trip. :)

[@johnmido3632]

welcome to kenya

[@TerryOlson-v4y]

Great story and storytelling and language and photos! Thanks for sharing.

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you for watching and for the kind feedback!

[@HerryMuncho]

Man...this guy is a good storyteller

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you for the encouragement!

[@jelly1951]

Fantastic video, especially those of us who were brought up or spent any time in Kenya. Please greet your wonderful artist mother. From David and Debbie Shaffer.

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@bettygatitu303]

Chini ya maji got me😂

[@rexmajoong5145]

Kenya 🇰🇪 will always be home

[@MrYamadaharu]

Lived this video! ❤️

[@traviskitonyo510]

The story telling is exceptional. Reminds me of OG Casey Neisstat

[@marabouthomas]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[@frederick1444]

Amazing! 💯

[@stevenadogo3774]

Awwwwww memories are made of this

[@teresiawachira1034]

Welcome back home. Karibu nyumbani.

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! It was so great to go home.

[@KungFuFanta]

Great memories.

[@Domemilkyrayyy]

Wazungu mwituu 😂 this looks nice!

[@marabouthomas]

haha!

[@ivankahinga1695]

I re-liked everytime you said perfect chai.

[@cheromercy120]

Great narration, I stayed hooked till the end 😊

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you for the kind feedback! :)

[@djdontwiga]

Kenya 🇰🇪 Sweet home welcome

[@marabouthomas]

Asante!

[@djdontwiga]

@marabouthomas pamoja

[@elishatkenya384]

Where in Kenya we meet

[@superleggera123]

amazing

[@DebraWilderMeditation]

Wow thoughtful storytelling and cool visuals

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you! :)

[@cryptoth4n0s77]

Wow, Alliance Jadini was the go to hotel in those days. It is a shame it is now derelict

[@marabouthomas]

Yeah, it's sad that the Alliance hotels are gone, but the Diani vibe is still there!

[@rwirwa]

Narration, vid done so damn good.

[@marabouthomas]

haha, thank you!

[@bwanasefunjege]

U R a Kenyan my brother ❤ come home❤

[@pushsplace]

Excellent! I felt that I was with you on your journey....! I would like to share your video in a couple of groups who will appreciate it...?

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you so much! Yes, you are most welcome to share it with people who would appreciate it. :)

[@lornake9634]

❤❤

[@gemaccountingtaxllc]

good story

[@marabouthomas]

Thank you!

[@CarolinaNaire]

The dance killed meee😂😂😂😂 karibu Tena nyumbani 🇰🇪🇰🇪

[@marabouthomas]

haha! Asante sana! I can't believe they let me up there. :)

[@felixkemei]

Wow

[@lkn4jolly]

I returned a couple of times. your Mum looks familiar somehow. So many chords you struck in 20 odd minutes I feel exhausted! I totally get it, I left at ten, been back three times since. When the taxi driver was explaining the meaning of things to you as an adult, I took a similar learning journey in Nottingham of all places, 1st year of Uni I initially lived with three nurses🥰 but the landlady said I had too much stuff, so I went to look at another place, less of a walk to Uni, above a computer shop. The Asian landlord liar took me round, it was big enough and I immediately gave him a deposit.. I said who else lives here? "Oh just a small Asian boy" Sahota Pinocchio replied leaving with his deposit.. "He runs the computer shop". He hands me the keys, I go up and check them and on the way downstairs to retrieve my "too much stuff" from the shop I hear waapi keyboard, ookoh on the shelf bwana... It was Pei and Omar. You know, "the little Asian boy". A giant of a man was sitting attentive to his work as I popped my head around the corner to introduce myself. He was 6-2 and probably 190kg Sudanese/Tanzanian and Omar was from Mombasa. I was like, my deposit... oh shit I hope this guy's not racist! Shall I let on I understand a little Swahili? I did, I earned my respect and they taught me all the things like that taxi driver taught you, that you don't quite work out about the culture as a ten year old. They also taught me about computers, it was the best experience a first year mature student at Uni could ever have had. Still in contact today, occasionally taking the piss out of Sohota Pinocchio.

[@marabouthomas]

haha, nice. I'm glad I could strike the chords. Thanks for sharing that story. :)

[@sophiezakaria]

Karibu Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪,while you were away, Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪became the capital city of Africa

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! Yeah, Nairobi had changed so much....but it was still Nairobi! :)

[@josephinenm7932]

I feel like I met you at the airport in New York in 2017. You asked me if I was from Kenya when you saw my passport

[@freedomm]

Rosslyn Academy looks like a bush school in the old photos LOL 😂

[@marabouthomas]

It has changed quite a bit! ;)

[@Dantemunk]

Karibu this is your home...

[@marabouthomas]

asante sana!

[@collinskemboi6045]

Woow

[@marymayeye7947]

Karibuni tena Kenya

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana! :)

[@clemente111]

9:57 embulbul my home❤❤

[@marabouthomas]

Nice! :)

[@Bjorn-h4e]

Did you school with Mark Wein, the food vlogger now with over 8 million subscribers? He schooled at Roselyn Academy as well and his parents were also missionaries from the USA.

[@marabouthomas]

He was a few grades lower than me, and I don't remember ever talking to him. His food videos are amazing though!

[@Michaelcn515]

Rosslyn i leave near Rosslyn riviera

[@leorioba6605]

Karibu tena. Kenya ni home

[@marabouthomas]

Asante sana!

[@seifabdi9248]

Welcome home 🏡 away from "home"

[@Flaytt744]

ha ha ha ha.......tumbos bar adams arcade...i willl be landing in kenya soon. let us down a pint or 3. escorted with nyama choma

[@martino6205]

Nunua nyumba ama shamba in Kenya

[@marabouthomas]

life goals! :)

[@donnyawara5354]

Hakuna matata

[@chandrakantharia]

Same feeling I have for Nairobi and Mombasa but the culture in Kenya is corrupt and concrete jungle in all cities and town makes me jittery and please avoid local council askaris as they are ruthless

[@davidongalo7865]

There no local council Askaris anymore

[@rahimali3004]

What a story. I posted a link of a Kenyan who lived in USA met an American from Utah had three kids and they decided to move to Kenya and live in Meru the husbands rural home where he was brought up. His wife has a youtube channel posting her experiences with her 3 kids and husbands kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYnLf2ujlr-qpKs

[@marabouthomas]

Oh cool, I will check out the link, it sounds like a fun channel!

[@tonygee5680]

The guy is on a different topic boss, leave ur nonsense aside 😢

[@kimanih6903]

You seem to have visited the seediest places you could find in KE or is that what you were looking for? 🤣🤣🤣

[@marabouthomas]

haha. I enjoyed every place I went to while I was there!

[@Sb900]

The song you keep trying to sing is "KENYA KENYA TAIFA LETU".... Every time you scream Kenya Kenya Kenyaaaa, the song is all I hear

[@marabouthomas]

Haha, Yes! That is the song! Classic. :)

[@TheExpeditionWarriors]

Hello, 😂 am a kenyan, can we shoot a video together, maybe some toadtrip?

[@marabouthomas]

Unfortunately I am back in the states now. Nice road trip video though! Keep shooting!

[@mtuflani1295]

What an ode to Kenya!