Meet my FIJIAN FAMILY! 🇫🇯

🇫🇯 I have left the tourist trail and the big city! Now, meet my Fijian family. They provide a feast for me on my arrival - I get my first taste of Fijian hospitality (it's world-class)! We also make progress on the build...
Last summer, I spent a month in FIJI. I had a crazy experience! I joined a team of volunteers with Think Pacific. Our mission was to build a health clinic for a rural village. In exchange, the villagers welcomed us into their homes and showed us their incredible way of life.
Fiji time - "The notion of things getting done eventually, or not at all, without the stress of time"
In 2016, Storm Winston destroyed much of Fiji, including my Fijian families church. Alex (one of my fellow volunteers) is currently hiking 3000km across New Zealand to raise money to repair it...
Please consider donating to this great cause here: gofund.me/d4b4...
Thanks!
Tommo
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[@ELM4PMQEY]

I did so many builds like this for Habitat for Humanity Fiji... miss it so much!

[@Riverside195]

Since your first vlog on about Fiji your views reached thousands. Now you're getting more than 6k views. Great stuff.

[@loadertom]

I know, it's crazy! I'm glad people are enjoying it. Thanks for the comment

[@adilaisa7760]

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[@apisaivukifiji9784]

Beautifuly captured bro..thanks for visiting the mother land🙌🇫🇯

[@loadertom]

The pleasure was mine!

[@lautokyokogagi9584]

Well done lad . I hope you enjoyed your stay in Fiji . Vinaka

[@fijikimbo]

Wouldn’t be a trip to Fiji without a dodgy stomach… tho sounds like you had it bad! Nice set of videos so far and glad you enjoyed it so much …and yes, Fijian hospitality is world class 👌🏻

[@loadertom]

It's true! The dodgy stomach definitely enriched the experience lol. Thanks for the feedback - I did enjoy it a lot!

[@airashiitheempress5798]

Aww I love the Fijian people my nieces are half ratuman and my sister lives there near Nandi with her little family. I miss them so much and watching this makes me wish I was there to see them such a beautiful people and so sweet and kind love this and thank you for all your efforts in building and helping the village in any way so sweet of you guys! Happy New Years

[@loadertom]

Thanks, Aira! Happy new year to you!

[@granvilleheights3411]

do you know which district in Rotuma your nieces from? I'm from the district of Malhaha.

[@opetaiaseni1955]

Rotuman are not really ethinically fijian

[@airashiitheempress5798]

@@opetaiaseni1955 yes I am aware of that and yet they still live and are from there and ratuma is an island near Fiji so they are nationally Fijian and my neices and their father all grew up there and are proud to be Fijians so technically your right but they are still Fiji 🇫🇯 at heart and so so proud too and I am proud of them aswell Bula Vinaka

[@yungming2046]

I'm from lau and rewa my mums village is in tailevu half my village are married to rotuman from juju and etc mostly fijian rotuman 4 generation most the village are mix with maori and Tongan and European and Indian and Chinese

[@RachelC426]

Love this Tom! Such special memories 🇫🇯

[@loadertom]

Thanks Rach! They are indeed

[@user-fm2tr5fy3p]

Miss those days with community feeding from viti ladies 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😢😢

[@alesiyawa1301]

🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏

[@n7zzz]

good video brother reminds me of my family in samoa

[@LydiaMartindale]

What a lovely family 😅❤

[@mikebure]

Wats up

[@kaira2596]

Great video mate! My village is really close to this One. I literally knows everyone here…We’ll done brother!!

[@loadertom]

Thanks bro!! That's awesome - glad you were able to find this vid

[@Leo_Fiji]

Bula Vinaka Tom...I hope you enjoyed staying in my village and the rugged short ride up.

[@loadertom]

Thanks Leo :-)

[@Leo_Fiji]

@@loadertom I love your content...Vinaka vakalevu! You have a SUBSCRIBER here and I've shared your video on my FB hope you don't mind.

[@tommyx6553]

The guy that jumped to spike the ball needs to learn more from his coach Mausio

[@jaymejay6691]

Love your content...new sub here and welcome🇫🇯

[@loadertom]

vinaka vinaka Jayme :-)

[@stephaniem.v.tuifagalele4283]

Vinaka Tomasi. Hope you enjoyed the experience of village life in 🇫🇯🇫🇯

[@loadertom]

Vinaka Stephanie :-) I certainly did!

[@bernadettepal966]

Wow beautiful ❤❤

[@yungming2046]

Great video bro

[@thehfambam]

💕💕❤❤

[@LeoBooth-pd3vb]

Found it Tom

[@sairasalato3833]

nice food💜

[@Myobb]

Bula! Vinaka!

[@loadertom]

Bula Vinaka!!

[@lekimababakobau2542]

Nice video bro

[@ratudelailomaloma4305]

thomas baker🤣🤣🤣, great stuff bud👌🏾🤙🏾

[@loadertom]

Glad someone got the joke, I'll be honest, I didn't at first 🤣🤣

[@albertogucci8339]

😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I love my culture

[@loadertom]

Same bro

[@kara8892]

3:40 the mandatory mess when you go to the village 😆

[@loadertom]

homely but messy hahaa, I'll blame it on my roommates xD

[@ItsReverb_YT]

Oh I thought that was your family just by reading the title

[@senemeli8898]

I hope u give these family's money and take them to the market to buy them food

[@sinipativuti4092]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@frenchycw7179]

Stee isaTukaiiii bulabula oiko taxi driver

[@loadertom]

taxi driver bula bula

[@mikatuitoga4992]

Bula, Loved your video. What was the name of the village you were staying in?

[@loadertom]

Vinaka dude. I'm not sure I should share the name of the village as this vid has gotten more views than I expected! But it was up in Ra

[@mikatuitoga4992]

@@loadertom ok that's cool. Hope you enjoyed your stay. Moce.

[@kaira2596]

Nadavacia village

[@ItsReverb_YT]

Shouldve sit around the Tanoa and drink some kava

[@loadertom]

oooh we did

[@MrB590]

Is this your adopted family?

[@loadertom]

Nah not my real adopted family haha. Just for a month while I lived in their house. But they became family

[@lelatamani]

Is that your real Mother?

[@loadertom]

Yes. We are biologically related

[@sinipativuti4092]

At least tell us which VILLAGE OR VILLAGE NAME ON YOUR DESCRIPTION WHERE IN FIJI IT IS

[@loadertom]

Clues in my other videos if you really want to know

[@Thomasshoot246]

are u adopted??

[@loadertom]

temporarily, I guess yes

[@laisanitamanikaiyaroi3274]

Lorenzo😂

[@loadertom]

You know him?! He's a funny guy

[@laisanitamanikaiyaroi3274]

@Tom Loader yes I know him we went to teritary together and I was a Team Leader for other 2 projects😌🙌

[@Kang501]

I’m confused, are you actually related?

[@loadertom]

Nah not related. We became part of their family while we lived in their house and village for a month. It helped them and us have a richer cultural exchange

[@Kang501]

@@loadertom that must’ve been great 👍 I’m Sāmoan so I know something about that

[@loadertom]

@@Kang501 It's amazing for me to think people even from Samoa have seen this haha! Although I guess it's not that far from Fiji. But yeah it was an immersive experience, one I'll never forget 👌

[@Kang501]

@@loadertom what I mean is, Sāmoans are just as family oriented, it’s very communal here too, you could have went to a Sāmoan family and it would’ve been the same

[@MrB590]

Bula

[@loadertom]

Bula Bula