Maya Gazali

Maya Gazali was born in Palu. She grew up in a small village. She began school

when she was six years old. She went to elementary school, but she didn’t go to high

school. Her family was very poor, and she had to go to work when she was thirteen

years old. She worked on an assembly line in a shoe factory.

When Maya was seventeen years old, her family moved to West Java. First, they

lived in Bogor, and then they moved to Bandung. When Maya arrived in Java, she

wasn’t very happy. She missed her friends back in Palu and she didn’t speak like

other children. She began to learn to speak like other children, and she practiced with

her new friends at the factory in Bandung.

Maya also studied hard. She learned English, and after a few months she got a job

as a secretary. Now Maya still studies at night, but now she studies advertising at a

business school. She wants to work for an advertising company some day and write

commercials.

Maya still misses her friends back home, but she communicates with them very

often over the Internet. She’s very happy now, and she’s looking forward to an

exciting future.