Goodnight Moon, the book Joyce gave us. I took a course in recruitment. How to recruit people in the Anglo-Mexican Cultural Institute , as one of its directors. I was Zone Director in Guadalajara at the time. I had been told to recruit people and expand services on the company courses side and so I did. I recruited teachers, but I wasn't very good at it because I had an open access policy. If you had the right qualifications, a positive attitude, a fair command of the language a car and some experience, then you were in. The worst recruits were the Americans on the run. One of them looked like a nun. She was thin and bitter and insisted on teaching all her students about how they would best fit into US culture and combat prejudice. 'This is a British cultural institute and we don't want to teach people how to integrate into US culture, thank you very much.' I explained. But it didn't make any difference. So, I went to observe one of her classes. It was...
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