Life Interview With Maria Sandoval

For the life interview I interview Maria Sandoval. She was born on May 28th, 1930. She will be 87 years old this year. Maria was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter Julio and Susana Sandoval. Maria Sandoval has three siblings, two sister and one brother. Maria is the oldest of her three siblings. Her parents were immigrants from Mexico. Maria’s parents worked picking up crops in big farms. Maria’s family was really close and always looking after one another. She said family was the most important thing in her life.
When she was three years old her family had moved to San Antonio, Texas. Her family decided to open a small cleaning business. At the age of 13 her father got deported to Mexico and the only thing she had was her mother and siblings. She said it was the saddest thing in her life was when she came back from school and found out her father was taken away. She said she felt as if she had crashed into this dead end or a brick wall and not knowing what to do or expect for her family’s future. Not having their father brought them lots of financial struggles because her father was no longer there to look after them. She had to kind of be the head of the family after her
At this time she was seventeen years old. She had to help her mother by helping her with the cleaning business they had started, but at the same time she was trying to finish her high school. Maria had too many dreams that had to be put into a waiting list because she had to provide for her family. One of her dreams was to one day become a doctor. She believed that her dreams possible to obtain if she really wanted and worked hard for them. At the age of nineteen she was able to get her high school diploma. She was really happy to be able to get her high school diploma and make her parents proud. She was working on her dream of becoming a doctor because she wanted to make something better of herself and have a