When You Think You're Good at Something but You Actually Suck

I have gone almost twenty years thinking I was fluent in Spanish. Suuuuuure, there were some things I had difficulty saying but for the most part I I could hold conversations with people. I MEAN!! I worked at a doctors office and I had to speak to Spanish speaking patients and I worked in retail AND SPOKE TO SPANISH SPEAKING CUSTOMERS.

But now here I am, spending my summer (and possibly the fall) in Dominican Republic and I feel like a fool. I'm not a shy person at all, but I just can't seem to speak up. I'm not sure if it's anxiety that keeps me from having conversations with people but I just can't do it. So now, whenever I'm out with my cousins and their friends or out on my own, people think I'm a mute!!

I just hope that with time, I'll get a little more comfortable. Luckily, most of the people I have met DO speak English but it's not fair of me to force them to speak English when their first language is Spanish.

I should invest in Rosetta Stone, problem solved.