St. Cloud Times — On many occasions in St. Cloud, Dotoo Nebi ’13 noticed that something about his slim body, average height and dark complexion sorts him into a community he technically doesn’t belong to: Somalis.
“People here think I’m Somali,” Nebi said, seeming bewildered. “We’re not Somalis. We have a different language. We’re from a different part of the world.”
Indeed, they’re from a different country. Nebi, for example, hails from the Agarfa village of Ethiopia, an East African country of more than 94 million people.
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Nebi, on the other hand, moved to Kenya with his family of eight in 2004.
Two years later, Nebi, who completed his middle and elementary school education in Ethiopia, came to Minnesota in 2006. “When I came here, I didn’t know English,” he said, adding that when he sat for the exam for placement at Arlington Senior High School in St. Paul, he wrote the exam in his native language.
His math and science skills, though, were above average. When he began to study biomedical science at St. Cloud State University in 2008, he worked as a math and science tutor at the university’s campus.
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