WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:07.707 uh, so I admit that I am not coming back without making the village. Did 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:11.666 you see your father and your brother then? I never see him. No. Do you 00:00:11.699 --> 00:00:15.316 plant, did you see any family when you went there? When you went back, I 00:00:15.349 --> 00:00:20.877 saw a few family members, you know like my cousins. Uh, my cousin, that 00:00:20.910 --> 00:00:27.256 cousin I used to live with. Okay. Yeah. So he actually took care of me 00:00:27.289 --> 00:00:31.747 because he was a hard man with the gun Under the yes, he got, he got a 00:00:31.780 --> 00:00:35.597 scholarship. Uh, and you get the money. So I do not have the money at that 00:00:35.630 --> 00:00:40.567 time. So you know, you were the first one that took care of. So to get to 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:46.717 your village, you would need to go by airplane airplane. If you go from 00:00:46.750 --> 00:00:51.126 Nairobi from kenya, you have to take an airplane. If you have to go to 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:56.387 Ethiopia, you have to take a vote. You know like a good through the river 00:00:56.420 --> 00:01:03.826 or you have to take a bus. Okay. But the airstrip was gone then God do you 00:01:03.859 --> 00:01:10.967 plan to go back? I plan to go back this year. You know like if not this 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:16.107 year, maybe maybe every next year because my father is very, very old. 00:01:16.140 --> 00:01:20.057 Yeah, the old man. So he always tells me, you know, I don't want to pass 00:01:20.090 --> 00:01:26.876 before before I see you. I want to see you first before I go. You know, I 00:01:26.909 --> 00:01:31.527 really wanted to go and see will your brother come back ever to come live 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:37.046 here in the United States. My brother now One of my brothers now it's in 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:39.507 the 1890s. 00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:43.947 I'm supporting him educational, you know, financially to go. Affinities is 00:01:43.980 --> 00:01:50.997 cool. But two of my brother, they can Bella in the room. You can, you know 00:01:51.030 --> 00:01:56.406 the one that is following me. He had like two wives africa. You have, you 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.887 have to marry a lot of wives. Yeah, you have two wives and a lot of kids 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:05.956 to, you know, he had like seven or eight kids, you know, So he's taking 00:02:05.989 --> 00:02:13.989 care about and my father And the wife of the brother that we lost in 2013. 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.087 So it is still there now. Taking care of them. Yeah, I'm taking care of 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:23.436 them. So I send them money every month. You're amazing. Yes, we're almost 00:02:23.469 --> 00:02:27.997 done with the interview, but I thought of something. Um, so if you 00:02:28.030 --> 00:02:31.397 envision your great great grandchildren looking at this video, do you want 00:02:31.430 --> 00:02:35.846 to tell them about the ceremony or the uh, wanting to know about that? Or 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:41.897 should we only ceremony? I would like them to remember one thing for me to 00:02:41.930 --> 00:02:46.397 come around here and be in the face of the camera, it's not that easy. You 00:02:46.430 --> 00:02:53.136 know, and I never dream of leaving their lives that right now. So when I 00:02:53.169 --> 00:02:56.987 celebrate now, I celebrate the day that I came to the United States, you 00:02:57.020 --> 00:03:01.767 know, I know too many people do not celebrate that, but I celebrate it. I 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:09.800 say, you know, uh always eight, 1995 with the day that I landed here in 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.057 the United States of America. And I I I'm very glad that day you know I 00:03:16.090 --> 00:03:20.707 never miss it. You know every time that they come you know I had to pray 00:03:20.740 --> 00:03:26.066 making sure you know I give God thank you for bringing me into this world. 00:03:26.099 --> 00:03:33.617 You know. So what I would tell them is you know, if you want, if you, 00:03:33.650 --> 00:03:37.497 because I know my grandchildren are not going to leave the life that I 00:03:37.530 --> 00:03:42.226 used to be. You know, they're going to be a grandchildren, you know, so 00:03:42.259 --> 00:03:46.327 they will know that you know their their their father or their grandfather 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:52.087 you know went through a lot of different life you know, so I would like 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:56.957 them to be good, you know serve the people and knowing that you know when 00:03:56.990 --> 00:04:01.376 when you, when you get into trouble or you get into a different life. That 00:04:01.409 --> 00:04:05.416 doesn't mean you know, you cannot help the world. You can work very hard 00:04:05.449 --> 00:04:10.856 and be helpful to have the other. Thank you so much. So one last thing, do 00:04:10.889 --> 00:04:16.217 you want to say anything in your native language. Mandela delighted to 00:04:16.250 --> 00:04:24.207 have a long story story. Damn talker. You know uh we obey grandma be 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:28.906 unlikeable and really story. She has a famous story. So a native chronicle 00:04:28.939 --> 00:04:35.457 interview, Give a professor at the university. Uh Arizona State University. 00:04:35.490 --> 00:04:42.777 So uh remember is to remove the prison for life. So we always uh 00:04:42.810 --> 00:04:50.810 television martin. So I need your Uh huh. Uh huh miniature video, United 00:04:52.649 --> 00:04:59.856 States. So any one of us, they relied made antelope on tape. Uh oh corner 00:04:59.889 --> 00:05:06.947 you know uh accountability need upon on the market today, you know what I 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:14.806 mean? So me make you a Carolina. So again and the test move your weight 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:19.856 will be in my life story. Come back with your doctor about your god damn 00:05:19.889 --> 00:05:25.036 car and meditative. Okay. No way. We're gonna thank you very much. Thank 00:05:25.069 --> 00:05:30.567 you. That's beautiful. Thank you so much. Thank 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.757 you. Thank you. Thank 00:05:33.790 --> 00:05:35.790 you.