Person Of The Week

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Week of : April 14-April 22 1999

Her name is Seblewengel Ayalew. She is an 8 years old girl living with her parents Mihret and Sara Ayalew and her younger brother Senay, seven  and her youngest sister Ayda, five. Her parents are from Ethiopia. Seble born in Dallas, Texas and moved to Kansas City, Missouri when she was a little girl,  and stayed KC almost for 5 years. Now, she lives at her new home in a nice and quite town called St. Peters, Missouri,  few miles west of St. Louise, Missouri.       I have known Seble since her second birthday. She is a brilliant and gifted girl. Now, she is a 3rd grade student. She is one of  gifted children from her school. Her dad told me she is a mathematician, athlete, poet, artist   as well as multi- lingual girl. She gets her parents and families attention for every move she is making. Her mom and her dad are her role models. They bought her  books from Ethiopia, such as a fourth grade  mathematical book, which is a basic mathematics book for most Ethiopian students. She several books such as Thesaurus, Fedel (Amharic language's alphabets poster, Amharic is an official language of Ethiopia.)  and a nice geography book that shows the worlds map, each country's flag and description.          

Seble is fluent in both English and Amharic languages. She can read and write both in Amharic and English languages. Two years ago, she had a chance to visit her root (Ethiopia) accompanied with her family. Still she remembers what she saw over there. She learned a lot on her trip to Ethiopia. Since she was fluent in Amharic language she did not have any problem to communicate and to have fun with her cuisine, grand parents ants, uncles and other relatives in Ethiopia.    Few years ago, I asked Seble what she is going  to be when she grows up. She told me she wants to be a brain surgeon. I asked the same question after a year and she gave me the same answer. She told me she wants to go to Ethiopia to help others after she gets her medical doctor's degree.  Few days ago, I had a chance to visit Seble's family. I amazed by Seble's improvement. She showed me the art she drew, the poetry she wrote, the dairy she wrote in Amharic language, and the math she did at school.

I was proud on her and her family for having such a gifted girl. After I saw her work,  I asked her if it is ok to show her work for others. She was happy and she had a big smile on her beautiful face. She said " really!" I said "yeah!" At first, I was thinking only to keep only the hard copy of her work. However, when I showed her work for other people, their impression gave an idea that Seble is the right person to be selected as the "Person of the week" in yebbo.com web site

Note: Seble and her parents gave me permission to post her sample work in this web site. Special Thanks: Mihret Ayalew, Sara Ayalew, Senay Ayalew, Ayda Ayalew. And Seblewengel Ayalew By Amde: amde@yebbo.com