How does the author’s word choice in paragraph 12 that begins, “Miss Ryan took me to a seat at the front of the room”, help readers understand how Ernesto was feeling on this first day in Miss. Ryan’s class?

Initially Ernesto is nervous about Miss. Ryan. She was a white woman who put him in the front of the class. At first Ernesto does not use flattering language to describe his new teacher, she patrolled the class, but then his diction changes when he sees that she is truly trying to help him, her blond radiant face level with mine, her voice patiently maneuvering me over the awful idiocies of the English language.