Nahum's interview with Dad.

00:02 Tell me about one of the most important people in your life.

00:09 Wow, that's great. Thank you. First of all, thank you for your question. My name is Nahum I am the Taye And yeah, I am very happy to share my story. Sorry. So the question is, what is my.

00:31 Important, one of your important people in your life?

00:36 Yeah, my wife. So my wife Raheel is very important for me.

00:46 Why? Like the question is, why is she important?

00:52 Because I love her and yeah, I love her and she is mother of my kids and we care each other. Yeah. Most importantly, I love her.

01:12 Tell me about the person who has had the greatest influence on your life. What lesson did they teach you?

01:24 My dad is the greatest person that I learned a lot from him. So he teach me to be honest. He teach me also to be efficient. So efficient means so to do stuff in a proper way, accurately, very nicely. So also, you know, he didn't finish his high school. He's very committed and he, he taught me a lot of disciplines and because he was a police officer, so he know, he knows a lot of disciplines from the police and he teach me in a disciplined way to respect others and. Yeah, so. And he also taught me mathematics. So he loves mathematics and he showed me, you know, tricks, how to do simple maths, how to solve problems easily and. Yeah. And the most importantly, he also taught me to give a priority for families.

02:53 Okay. Who has been the kindest to you and why?

03:06 My wife is the kindest for me almost always. Maybe she loves me.

03:15 Why? It says why?

03:18 Yeah, she's. She's kind. She never.

03:20 With more details.

03:23 Yeah, so with more details. What can I say? So she's very kind. She speaks. Yeah, she respect me and she speaks very kindly and. Yeah. And also some of my colleagues also, almost most of my colleagues, they also speak to me kindly. But yeah, my wife, the first one.

04:01 Share some important lessons you've learned in life.

04:06 Wow, this is very interesting question. So the most important lesson I learned in my life is to let it go and go forward. So in your life you would encounter enormous amount of challenges. So there have been difficult times, but they will pass. So you need to get patient, let it go and go forward. So always. So in your life there is always, there will be always a challenge and you shouldn't be panicked for the challenge. You just face it and then you pass it and then, yeah, you let it go. So that is the most important lesson I learned in my life.

05:09 Okay. Share some of your earliest childhood moments.

05:19 So my earliest childhood moment, I, I Love soccer. And we play soccer in a. In the. In. In the neighborhood. Yeah. With my friend. And we don't have like a ball, like a very good bowl like. Like this. We make a bowl out of like torn socks or something. So we put plastic, like play outside with it. Yeah. Like plastic bags. We put plastic bags into the.

06:00 What keeps it hard? Like you need a hard. What keeps it hard?

06:05 Yeah, if you put a lot of plastic bags in it and in, in, in. In the sock. So it. You, you put it like you put all together. You put it, you put it and you punch it like down, down. And then it becomes more harder and harder. And then you rub it. Yeah, you, you. Yeah, so you rub it, you roll it and then we make a ball with that. And it's so funny. You play a lot and that's like my best moment.

06:41 Are there any funny stories people tell about you from when you were growing up?

06:51 Yes. So the funniest story that I had is I went to Singapore for my scholarship. PhD scholarship for an interview. And then after I did my interview, I wanted to visit Singapore and then went like into the different places, into different neighborhoods. And then I saw a flag. So an Ethiopian flag. And then I was like, wow, in Singapore. It was September and it is near to their national day, national day of Singapore. All of the Singaporeans and they put their flags on there nearly in the window. So many Singaporeans.

07:48 Did you do that?

07:51 No, I. So they do that. And then I saw also Ethiopian flag. And then I thought, oh, this is Ethiopia, it's very far. And then I went there.

08:04 Just far from Ethiopia is from Singapore.

08:09 Yeah, it is nine hour flight. What.

08:15 What about drive?

08:17 Yeah, there is no drive. So. So the. To. To complete the story. When I get closer and closer, I found it that it's not a flag. Someone hung his underwear with the similar color, like Ethiopian flag. And I was. So. Yeah, I was alone, but I laughed a lot. And this is like one of the greatest moment that. Yeah. I had in my. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

09:05 What have you accomplished so far? Personally and professionally? What makes you proudest? Why?

09:20 Can you repeat the question again?

09:27 What have you accomplished so far? Personally?

09:32 Personally.

09:33 Personally and professionally?

09:36 Professionally.

09:38 Professionally. What makes you proudest?

09:41 Why so personally I have accomplished so. I have a very good marriage. I am very happy and proud of that. I have very good kids. I am also proud of my kids. I'm very happy professionally. I have accomplished a lot of things. So I have completed my undergraduate postgraduate degrees and I finished my PhD. This is very great success. And also I am doing research which. Which would benefit the society. So I am also proud of the researches I did so far. So I have. So far I have 15 publications and also. Yeah, a lot of international presentations and I'm very happy with that as well.

11:01 Tell me how you would like people to remember you.

11:11 Yeah, this is a great question. I like people to remember me by my work. So I would like to do very solid and very beneficial work for the society and also for my family so that people remember me by my work.

11:35 Okay. Would you be willing to. Would you be willing to share a happy or sad moment with me?

11:55 I can share you with a happy moment. So the happy moment is my marriage day when I was.

12:08 How did it come.

12:09 A broom? You know, it's. It's. It's great to be broom. And pride. Pride, right? Yeah. So that moment, that's like my.

12:20 How did it go? I mean, I wasn't born that time.

12:25 Yeah, but how did it go? It was very nice. We did it in the church. There were. In the church there was a big annual holiday and people were there for celebrating the holiday. And through that they also attended our wedding. It is like in thousands of people. And after that also we visited other church and we went home with my uncle Adere. He prepared a lot of stuff and foods for the audience. And so we ate, we. We did a song and yeah, it was like all families came together. It was the happiest moment.

13:21 Okay, Ari, what are your favorite family holidays and why?

13:40 So I like Easter. So Easter white. And why I like Easter? Because it is one of the longest. The longest fasting we did before Easter. And then we break our fast in Easter. And also it is. Easter is the sign of everybody rise to the heaven. So we do have hope. It is a great hope that next day we all rise to heaven. So I like that. So that's why I like Easter.

14:40 Are there any classic family jokes, stories or songs you can share with me? So jokes, stories or songs?

14:56 I can. Songs maybe. I don't know.

14:59 Do you have any jokes?

15:01 Jokes?

15:04 Because I have one.

15:06 Ah, but you are asking me, right? Yeah, I think I don't have that much. I don't remember stories, but stories. There are a lot of stories, but I don't know if it is appropriate here or not.

15:23 Like is it any like funny? Not like funny funny stories? Like not like too funny, but like almost funny.

15:37 So in the new year. So there it. I have a story which is funny.

15:43 Was I born that time?

15:45 No, When I was a kid in Ethiopian New Year, we go, hoya, hoye, ho. So, well, while we are doing that and one our elders, the bigger ones, if they get us, we. We did. We do it in the night. If they get us, they're gonna take our money. The one.

16:19 We give them the money.

16:20 So we collect. Like we go. We. We do hoya, hoya.

16:24 Yeah.

16:25 To every house.

16:26 Yeah.

16:27 And then the house owners or people living in the house, they gave us some money and then we keep that. Right. So when the biggest like camp, they also do like the elder big. So, okay, you do hoya, hoya on your age. So I never did it on our age. So for example, if you are 10 years old or maybe between 12 years old.

16:59 Nine and a half.

17:00 Yeah. So. So it's all. Your friend is like in the same age. So the bigger ones are the one like 18 or 15 years, 16 years old. When we are very.

17:14 Or like 14.

17:16 Yeah, 14, 15. They like bigger kids. So we were small kids. And. And when. If they came that to us, they're gonna take all our money that we collected from them.

17:29 Why?

17:30 Because they want to have it. So. So while one day. So when we are doing the bigger ones, they came where we are a little. They will run away. And then it was so rainy and muddy, so I felt I fall down into the huge mud.

18:04 A mud or a puddle?

18:08 Yeah, it's mud. A mud.

18:10 Mud.

18:11 A mud, yeah. And when I get home, all my clothes are all mud. And so funny. But my parents is. Because it was a holiday. They didn't. They didn't.

18:27 What age were you that time, though?

18:31 About 10 years old. Yeah.

18:35 That was 30 years ago then.

18:40 Yeah.

18:40 And. Okay.

18:43 Okay, thanks. Question.

18:44 What do you see as our families let. Legacy, legacy, legacy.

19:11 So the legacy from our family is to help each other. So my dad was helping his sisters and other extended families. And also I am also helping. And when you grow up. So we keep this legacy. So everyone in the family has to help others. So financially. Yeah. So this is the legacy we keep in our family.

19:55 That's all.

19:57 Okay, thank you for your question. It has been fun to chat with you and hope we'll meet you next time. Thank you.