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Libee Migbar 1
It hurt his brother and Mawi to see their parent struggle for living in the new world. It took them several of years to gradulate from ESL (English as Second Language) in order to attend a full time class regularly, ESL is a special class to help a student to learn the basic Englis language. When Tewolde turn 13, he hit his manhood. In January 1989, they were buying food from Aldi's supermarket, pack their lunch and went to the library. They even share their sandwich to a man. -
Libee Migbar 3
They were working for a buy down the street from them for $5 per hours for cash doing restoring damages to the driveway. Working hard under the sun ,their skin became darker. Then one day, they meet their good friend Jim Settacase, who own a cleaning services and got paid by check, and got paid $7 per hours. -
Libee Migbar 4
Not too long that Tewolde opening his own cleaning business, it got very great and plenty of work to do. Tewolde was planning to talk to the Library management if he can clean there and he will go better job than those janitor, But there was a sad part of it, was that Tewolde was kill by a drunk driver and he was never graduated from high school. -
Libee Migbar 2
By the time Tewolde reach to junior high, they have an annual budget of forty dollars for their supply like Nintedos, Sega like other rich boy do. When they got into high school, they want to do weight lifting but they found some of the weight from Dumpster of Wheaton College. Many of their supplies were from those college student that was donated to them like desk, bike, couches, TVs and even some school supplies too. -
Coffee Tales 3
Even their mom start to share their story of how they were back in their homeland. That Haileb was helping and cure so many people around the village or from distance of the village, from labor to major wound care. How many people have respected him (Haileb). -
Coffee Tales 5
How all the children were sick and needed shelter. Came to a place where she have to asking for help and save her childern from the illness that her children all got it. A mother who is all by herself and little money to care for her childern fighting from living situation, medical issues, moneys, shelter and foods. -
Coffee Tales 1
One night, they father Haileb have a talk with them ( Tewolde and Mawi). About sex that they will get AIDS and wait until they are marry. Mehret got spank because she was once caught in a car with a guy. What ever they do at school they have to lie to their parent that is school related only in order to go or join what they want too. -
Coffee Tales 2
When there were guest over at their places, in their culture is to brewing coffee for the guest to drink, and it have to be make correctly or it can burn the coffee bean too. After taking a sip of those brewing coffee, they start to share or tell their stories. Many of them were tell how they struggle or how they had been through to get here today. -
Coffee Tales 4
How Haileb have to live the families behide and how he fled to another place or to Sudan. Tsege who is Mawi's mother were alone with the childern and fear of execution, fear of their live. Separate from their father, their mom been through so much like hiding away from the enemy.