Then I went up to the Northwest Territories and worked in a daycare centre. I spent six or seven months there. The director gave me a book to keep things in. She used to tell me to go home and write down things that I was going to do the next day with the kids. I used to open up the book and I didn't know where to start, what to do. So I'd close the book and turn on the TV to the kids' cartoons. I used to watch Curious George and a couple of other cartoons. On a couple of cartoons they showed how to make butterflies and things. The next day I went in and I said, 'I never had time to write it down, but I know what to do with my group.' They all sat down and I showed them how to make these little butterflies.

There were a couple of books about cold and water and stuff like that I knew how to read. I used to look through the books after the kids would leave and see what I could read to them. Most of the time I used to go along and say things from my mind. They all thought I was pretty good and they wanted me to go to Edmonton to do a course. I was scared so I just up and quit. I couldn't tell them I couldn't read and write.

I moved back to Toronto again and went back to filling out receipts. I don't know how I did it, but I did it. I guess one day they just told me I had to fill it out, because there was nobody else there. I didn't know what to do. I was looking through all those things and came upon one that had the same things I was doing. So I put down my dates and how many cases I did and signed my name. From that time on I got used to it. After a while, I knew exactly what to do. That's what I did up until '87, when I came back to Newfoundland.