“Before I came to America I had dreams of life here. I thought about tall Anglos, big buildings, and houses with lawns. I was surprised when I arrived to see so many kinds of people – Black people, Asians. I found people from Korea and Cambodia and Mexico. In California I found not just America, I found the world.”

Olsen – Voices from the Language Classroom by M. Bailey and Nunan, 1996.