I am Malala
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- I am Malala. This is my school! I love it here. My aba is the principal and owns the school, so even though girls aren't usually allowed to go to school, I can!
- Around my 10th birthday, everything changed. A radio mullah - or teacher - had previously been preaching about anything he deemed un-Islamic. Now, he went even further, having gards kill "violators" who stood up to him. He also preached about girls not going to school. Suddenly, my safe haven wasn't so safe.
- My father started doing interviews preaching against the Tailiban(the organization that had started with the radio mullah) and sometimes I could come with him! Soon I was doing my own interviews, and it made me feel powerful. Unfortunately, Fazlulluh gave an order saying girls were banned from school. If we didn't obey, they would bomb the whole school.
- I continued to go to school in secret, but soon the leader of the Taliban's Father in Law gave a speech saying the Taliban would be aiming for the capital, and our town of Mingoria would be in the middle of a war zone. Because of this, we left and took refuge with our relatives in the mountains. When we finally came home, the school was still standing! I could go to school!
- I do not remember getting shot. I remember waking up in a hospital bed confused and seeing double. I could not speak. The bullet went very close to my brain, and it started to swell. The surgeons removed a piece of my skull and put in in my stomach to give my brain space to swell. I was in the hospital for 16 days.
- Now we live in Birmingham. It is very different from life back in Mingoria, but we are getting used to it. I am very busy making books, documentaries, and speeches. I do social media campaigns for girls education. I am just trying to make the world a more peaceful place.
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