Essay from Bakhora Bakhtiyorova

Five Central Asian teen girls. three facing the camera in sun dresses and two in the background. Bakhora Bakhtiyorova is in a light yellow dress.

Bakhora Bakhtiyorova (in yellow, third from left)

My Love for Journalism

Today I want to tell you about a little girl. I can say that she was a very wonderful girl with fire in her heart. Her name is Bakhora.

Bakhora was very interested in journalism. I clearly remember when she was a child. She used to record various voice messages on her mother’s phone recorder and made a microphone out of toys to pretend to be a journalist.

Now Bakhora is 17 years old. She graduated from the School of Journalism at age 15 and her mother was the reason for that. Childhood dreams and goals always inspire people. She really wants to be a journalist now, even though her family is against it. As is only natural, this is a challenge for her.

Bakhora said one day, “Journalism has been with me all my life. I am very interested in it and I am trying to become a solid journalist. I want my parents to be proud of me when I become a skilled journalist. My life is journalism. My goal is journalism. I want to read fiction works to work more on myself and broaden my outlook. Especially the ones from foreign journalists that have helped me get many articles published and bring me to the light when I lose hope.”

Bakhora Bakhtiyorova was born in 2006 in the Republic of Uzbekistan and is a future international journalist.