User:Teshome Mirkena

Teshome Mirkena Teshome Mirkena Seya is born in 1980-in a small village in Ethiopia-special district called ”Dimtu,” located in the region of Oromia,South West Shewa zone-near Lake Wenchi,Ethiopia. Mr Teshome is from large family and the seventh child of his parents. His father is Mirkena Seya Buli, aka-“ Gugsa Wale-“ or “Aba Gugsa;”and his mother is Gelane Feyissa Debela.Teshome is from three major clans in his area called Maru(Maru Magnako,) Dulale(Dulele Tukuro Wacho,)Abadho (Abadho Kuye,)and Maru Seto. Teshome Seya has five brothers and four sisters. He is always thankful of his parents who never went to school for themselves but sent him to school for better life and bright future as early as his age of six years old; and he also proud of his brothers and sisters who supported him on his education journey. Mr.Teshome Seya began looking for his future at Chitu elementary school which is about five kilometers away from his parents home, and for eight years –until his completion of eighth grade- he used to walk at least two hours back and forth on foot due to lack of transportation and due to poverty. This was the greatest barrier which fortunately couldn’t stop him to accomplish his educational dream even though education never stops till the end of life, and he believes his educational dream is still unfinished and on progress. In 1993, Teshome took national exam in completion of elementary education and promoted to high school. Here another obstacle Mr.Seya faced again on his educational journey; the only high school found in his area is Dejazmach Gerasu Duki Comprehensive Secondary School-which is about fifteen kilometers away from Teshome’s parent’s home. Moreover, education tuition and registration fee was –expensive comparing to his parents income, and makes it difficult to proceed. Teshome is born optimist, and he believes in keep himself in motion until his dream accomplished no matter what the difficult the situation is. He believes in stand and fight for the most important objectives rather than remain sleep and worry about the future. After deep discussion and argument with his parents on how to proceed in education, his parents, who he always would like to call”The Greatest Family of all in any circumstance,”decided to provide him accommodation,food,medication,stationary,and all the necessary equipments.They rent house from Welisso town-where the high school is located, and provided him every education requirements. In 1994 Teshome began his ninth grade education with ambitious dream and great motive. Teshome is always objective and visionary; he always says:”The journey is too far, the burden is too heavy, but no matter what the slippery road it is I better keep moving forward than surrender, I better stand by and fight for it rather than sleeping and loosing.” Courage and optimism are from the inside, discouraging factors are those from external which ruin our most precious moment if we let them function;they have no room in Teshome’s personal life. He graduated from Dejazmach Gerasu Duki Secondary high school in 1997 with an average grade. In Ethiopia-not everybody is lucky to go to college and higher education institutes or universities because of limited higher educational access and poverty. 1998 was the worst year for him as he always recognize this year as “the hold on snare” because he couldn’t compete for any job vacancy due to lack of required criteria which limits so many high school graduates to proceed in education. Mr. Seya always believes in the existence of another chance, he always believes that there is no external obstacle stops him because he is always able to see bright future, and his internal motive is greatly stronger than the noisy barriers surrounding. He believes that there is no failure but only trial and error. “Try again and again, and then you will avoid failure and will be successful;”is his motto. This is a motive and faith which always drive him towards another better life by stepping on mountains and jumping over valleys. He never gets trapped, he never have been sunk, but he has been strongly challenged and tempted several time. There was time he cried not a normal tears but blood with no tears. Right in time, optimistic Teshome continues fighting for the most important he needs, and he improved his grade and has got himself ready to fight for next battle. In September 1999, almost every government educational organization had job vacancy announces. Teshome saw a notice of Teachers Training posted on the wall of Wolisso Educational bureau office while stopping by relative’s office. Then he gladly applied for this position. Still bad news, this position is open only for twenty three people, but the applicants are over three thousand. The situation didn’t give any hope, but Teshome is unstoppable-he already has sufficient experience how to defeat obstacles. Only few students passed the first filtering system stage-which is document evaluation. Teshome is one of those lucky but still two more filtering levels left. There was a committee which was in charge to choose most qualified candidates; this committee was a composition of University teachers, College teachers, ministry of education agents, and civil service agent. Teshome has overcome both oral and written exams, and he was extremely surprised when he saw his name at raw seven of eleven men.Men and women had different competition scale level;of 23 total qualified candidates, there was 11 male and 12 female. Now it is time for Mr.Seya to head to Teachers Training Institute. On June 28,1999 Teshome graduated from Asella Teachers Training Institute in teaching profession .Teshome M Seya has been one of those fruitful teachers in elementary school in Oromia region ,in Ethiopia. He served as school teacher for seven years in five different elementary schools in villages in Ethiopia, and as a school principal for about three years in two elementary schools. In July 2005, Teshome M. Seya joined Jimma Teachers Training College to study Adult And Non Formal Education(ANFE) while working his regular job. However he is student of great distinction and the happiest person with his education, Teshome likes to dream big,and try something new. His interest to see some developed countries on the earth is so high. He applied for U.S.A visa through Diversity Visa for about three years and he failed, but in 2007 Teshome applied  for U.S.A visa again and went to Jimma TTC to complete his third quarter study, one more quarter left to graduate. When he came back to his regular job miracle happend, the good news arrived –he won DV Lottery which made him eligible to get permanent residency permission to U.S.A. On July 30, 2008, Teshome arrived in Seattle, Washington- U.S.A, land of his dream, land of milk and honey, land of opportunity and freedom-as everyone likes to call. One year later, Teshome started another education journey in www. Everettcc.edu/ Everett Community College. In April 2012, he stopped his study for temporarily to visit his parents in Ethiopia. Currently Teshome Mirkena Seya is enrolling in Everett Community College in Medical field. Nothing has ending age, it will continue like straight line. When it comes to character, Teshome is realistic, timed, likes to plan every movement in his life,and he loves to measure the outcome of every action. Teshome is friendly, funny, kind but not predictable. In his social life, Teshome is picky, picky in picking friends. Most importantly, two things put you in trouble with him;if you lie to him and if you are unable to keep a secret. It is easy to him to disconnect his any amount of relationship from a liar and a gossip person. Truth and trustworthiness are the only social relationship measurement tools he trusts. The most respectful Teshome has zero tolerance for anyone who starts fire, a fire of fight, a fire of quarrel, a fire against his will and his wellbeing. Teshome never and will never start any fire, meaning- fight or fire described above but if one chooses to go beyond his basic ground rules, he never give a second chance, nonstop until the enemy gets defeated. Follow the path, play by rule, bear a fruit of peace, harvest seeds of life and enjoy it. Be happy but don’t mess up with him!