6) No matter how full a bus is if you bang your hand against the side of top of the bus while riding it the driver knows that someone wants to get off and he needs to stop. Definitely helpful after you realized you missed your stop.
7) Sometimes for certain issues Hondurans, or latinos in general probably, have a round-about way of telling others to do something in order to not offend. For example, when Andy, Josh, and our friends Carlos and Mike were getting ready to go to Roatan Mike asked/whispered to Carlos to tell Andy to pay him for the trip instead of Mike asking him directly. And they were all even in the same room at the time that this happened. This sometimes is definitely a good thing when trying to avoid offending others, and sometimes it is rather inconvenient but really it doesn't happen super often.
8) To my knowledge there are no exhaust regulations in Honduras for vehicles so you can imagine the walk to and from Rachel's house along a busy highway.
9) It is not strange to hear an occasional slap/splatter against the tile floor. This sound is someone who just blew their nose in their hand and then threw the gunk on the floor. It sounds gross, and is, but they mop the floor several times a day so it's ok...
10) It's normal for husbands or the man of the house to just up and leave his family to start a new one. For this reason there are a lot of single moms and pretty much every family is broken, and yet it's not strange either for the new and old families to know and do things with each other, like celebrate birthdays.
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