By this quote, the author means she wishes she can make the journey of finding yourself and coming to love yourself and culture easier for all immigrant students. This will be hard for her to do because everyone’s journey is different. Her journey consisted of years of trying to not just blend in with the crowd but to be completely covered by it. She would be deathly afraid of being called on by the teacher but gained a bit of confidence with her Spectrum group. The author states, “I know that some kids want to disappear and disappear until they do. Sometimes I think I see them, in the blurry background of a magazine photo, or in a gaggle of kids following a teacher’s aide across the street. “ This is demonstrating how she sees what the other immigrant students are going through clear as day since she suffered from this since her adolescence. Shes have been going this feeling since the first grade. She is now a high school student who learned to wear her skin proudly and wants to spread confidence to other people in this category of immigrant children. Preferably without the long journey of shyness, keeping her opinions and insights to herself, and the feeling of wanting to disappear.

After reading ‘’The Good Immigrant Student ’’ by Bich Minh Nguyen where the author expresses her experiences in being an immigrant student in America she made a statement  In paragraph 28, “I would like to make a broad, accurate statement about immigrant children in schools. I would like to speak for them (us). I hesitate; I cannot.” Which to me she meant she couldn’t speak for all immigrant students living in America because each individual goes through their own experiences. Like Bich herself, she was a very shy girl who had low self-esteem in school because of her acknowledgment she knew she differed from the rest in her class she made a statement on how she was,  “I was nearly silent, deadly shy, and wholly obedient. My greatest fear was being called on, or in any way standing out more than I already did in the class that was, except for me and one black student, dough-white. I got good grades because I feared the authority of the teacher; I felt that getting in good with Mrs. Alexander would protect me, that she would protect me from the frightful rest of the world. “Which was a very different experience than people like her sister or the two Indian girls that were her friends. She explained how her sister handled being considered as someone who’s different from the rest. “My sister, for instance, was never as shy as I was. Anh disliked school from the start, choosing rebellion rather than silence.” And using the friend’s experiences,  “Indian friend of mine who told of an elementary school experience in which a blond schoolchild told her teacher, “I can’t sit by her. My mom said I can’t sit by anyone who’s brown.’’ And another friend, whose family immigrated around the same time mine did, whose second-grade teacher used her as a vocabulary example: “Children, this is what a foreigner is.’’ And her speaking for every immigrant student just based on her experiences or people around her might leave other immigrant students who can’t relate left out because their immigrant students who can have the potential to actually have a better experience than what she has stated she could even contradict herself.