(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121122_malala_friends_stryposter-5a.photoblog600.jpg)Anja Niedringhaus / APSchool children gather under a giant poster of Malala Yousufzai at the Khushal School for Girls in Mingora, Pakistan, before classes on Nov. 15. By The Associated PressMINGORA, Pakistan -- For one month the dreams kept coming. The voice, the shots, the blood. Her friend Malala slumped over.
Shazia Ramazan, 13, who was wounded by the same Taliban gunman who shot her friend Malala Yousufzai, returned home last week after a month in a hospital, where she had to relearn how to use her left arm and hand. Memories of the Taliban bullets that ripped into her remain, but she is welcoming the future.
"For a long time it seemed fear was in my heart. I couldn't stop it," she said. "But now I am not afraid," she added, self-consciously rubbing her left hand where a bullet pierced straight through just below the thumb.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121122-malala-friends-injured-stry-5a.photoblog600.jpg)Anja Niedringhaus / APShazia Ramazan, 13, was wounded by the same Taliban gunman who shot Malala Yousufzai and Kainat Riaz in October.Now Shazia and her friend Kainat Riaz, who was also shot, return to school for the first time since the Oct. 8 attack when a Taliban gunman opened fire on Malala outside the Khushal School for Girls, wounding Shazia and Kainat in the frenzy of bullets.
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