During my trip I often wondered if I didn’t belong because of the speaking barrier or because I didn’t fully understand their culture. I would usually say it was because of the speaking barrier, but my trip was during the holiday of Ramadan, which might have forced the culture onto us more than if we visited during another time of the year. Also they way they spoke and dressed did make me less excited to speak because what if the way I spoke, dressed or acted caused them to judge and for me not to fit in. At this point I look at Sedaris because he was in a similar situation. Sedaris wouldn’t speak easy things such as asking for directions or coffee in a country he barely knew because he did not want to make a mistake and sound like a foreigner, where I didn’t want to speak because I didn’t want to make a mistake but I knew that I had other resources to use to be able to communicate. After reading Sedaris and reading about him learning his lesson of is you never try you will never succeed I really look back at my experience and realize that I should have spoken, but still wasn’t clearly sure why I didn’t.