381:. As he shares his nostalgia for the garden he left back in Ethiopia and his determination to succeed as a professional soccer player in Israel, his story of assimilation comments on Israel's Ethiopian population at large. Gesho has seen war, danger and poverty, and was separated from his family for seven years, but he accepts it all with grace. He is still excited by the luxuries of electricity and running water in his family's trailer, and he enjoys school, which he had to leave after the sixth grade to help his father on the family farm. Gesho's inner strength and determination have contributed to his ranking as the number two player on his soccer team; he knows how to challenge himself to improve and has little doubt that he will succeed.
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