She arrived in India in 1929[REF] and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas,[REF] where she learnt Bengali and taught at St. Teresa's School near her convent [REF].
Teresa took her solemn vows on 14 May 1937 while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta [REF].