Feeling incompetent is a humbling experience most expats are familiar with. At home you might feel incompetent when you don’t know how to program your space-age electronic equipment, but living abroad all it takes to feel like a baby is not knowing the language and trying to buy bread or a screwdriver or curtain rods. In Ramallah, Palestine, I had no trouble at all feeling incompetent.
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