I was ten when the Taliban came to our Valley." An "Islamic reformer" named Maulana Fazlullah started broadcasting on the radio every day for four hours. He started to brainwash the people of Swat by aiming his broadcasts at women, at specific individuals and by making new laws of life. Even during the stay of the Taliban in Swat, while many of her female classmates dropped out of school, Malala continued to go to school. In 2007, while the situation was getting worse, Malala gave interviews on various TV stations. On the 3rd of January 2009, Malala started writing a diary for BBC about her life under the Taliban under the pen name of Gul Makai. This was the first contact the world had with Mala. As the months go by, Malala continues to describe the situation as getting worse and worse: "[...] there were only ten girls in my class when there once had been twenty-seven." In 2009, Malala and her family were forced to leave the valley and became IDP's (internally displaced persons). Malala describes leaving her valley as "harder than anything I had done before." They returned to Swat three months later. Thankfully their house had been spared but the school had been used as a bus for the army of Pakistan.