Response to "A Sea Worry"

This piece was very short, and I feel that when a piece is so brief it should aim to accomplish a lot with its few words.  I'm not sure what you could say this piece "accomplished", but the only thing I picked up on was a hint about the difficulty of being a foreigner in America (the narrator talking to one of the surfers so that he didn't "lose language").  I would also add that, stylistically, it struck me not so much as "blurring the lines" between fiction and nonfiction, but it really came across as completely fictional.  Other than that, I had little reaction to this essay; it mostly struck me as a brief narrative that said little.