Maryam Research Paper

Maryam was born 1951 in the capital of Somalia Mogadishu. She is from a small family who consist of parents and two siblings. She is the oldest child in the family and her sister Halima was born in Mogadishu, the same house Maryam was born. Her father was a soldier and used to go to different cities in Somali. Her father went to a city called Kismayo, and built a house for his family. He was a loving and a caring father. Therefore, after living in Kismayo by himself, he felt that he lives in house without his family, so he came back to the city where his family lived. Even though, the girls wanted to move to the new house in Kismayo, their mother didn’t agree with as her mother lived in Mogadishu. Maryam said “ My mother was close to me and my siblings, and we help her out”. Finally, Maryam’s mother convinced her to go with her husband and allow her girls to live with their father. “We moved to Kismayo when I was 8 years old, and it was difficult to adopt to the new environment” said Maryam. At school I met a girl named Raha, she was open minded girl. There were a lot of bullying in Maryam’s school, and Raha was a big girl, so most of student were afraid of her. Maryam was …show more content…
After getting married, she was able to support her own family and support her parents. Her advice for me as a young person, “Never give up what you believe in life”. She then back to her parents, and mentions that she was first generation university graduation, not only that she was the only graduate in her family. Maryam’s family didn’t value education as she did, and her both sister never get to college as they got married right after high school. Her brother became a soldier like his father, and soldiers back then didn’t require a degree at all. Maryam said that “I made sure that most of children would go to college if not all six of them, and now 2 are college graduates while other three are still in college, in the