Gabriela Mistral was once an ordinary teacher in a small village school in Northern Chile. (1)___________________________________. Gabriela Mistral was only fifteen when she began teaching, but she was a good teacher. She helped the minds of her students' scale the mountain walls and reached out to the world beyond. For eighteen years, Gabriela (2)_______________________________. During part of this time, she was director of schools in all of Chile. Before long, (3)____________________________________. In 1922, she was invited to Mexico to help organize the rural school system. Two years later, Gabriela Mistral came to the United States where she served as a visiting professor in several colleges.