Greetings! My name is Thomas Takele. I am from Silver Spring, Maryland. I came to the University of Richmond because I had heard it had a beautiful campus and generous with financial aid (which I later found out was the truth). I went to Wheaton High School, where I played basketball, was the
secretary for the East African Student Association and volunteered to help in many other events within the school.If you wanted to find me anytime while I was in high school your best guess was on a basketball court. That is where most of my fun times were spent from the age of 9 to the age of 18. I had to take a break from basketball in the summer of 2021 because I had gone through a meniscus tear which I had thought was minor. It was actually two small tears that were so close together that they looked like one big one. I had got surgery and needed to find hobbies that I could do to live life without basketball. 6 weeks after the surgery I was able to walk again and I began hanging out with my friends again and having fun moments. T
his is when I had fell in love with taking pictures and capturing fun moments in life. This became my new hobby and what I could do while my leg was still healing from surgery. This gives you a glimpse of where I am in my current state.