life.[10] At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. She never again saw her mother or sister. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
blessing, not a curse. I had thought of challenging the critic to a duel (laptops at twenty p a c e s ) but now reconsidered. W i t h a slight change in attitude I could turn his hostility to my benefit. I contacted the critic and invited h i m to talk over our differences o f opinion at the seminar. H e accepted and joined a panel discussion which t u r n e d into a lively and entertaining debate, illuminating corners of the story world that I h a d never glimpsed before. T h e seminar was better and my ideas were stronger for being challenged. Instead of fighting my T h r e s h o l d Guardian, I h a d absorbed h i m into my adventure. W h a t had seemed like a lethal blow had turned into something useful and healthy. T h e mythological approach had proven its worth in life as well as story. A r o u n d this time I realized the "Practical G u i d e " and Campbell's ideas did have an influence on H o l l y w o o d
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