You know what they say about those who assume

My roommate and I live in an apartment in a small community in Tegucigalpa. There are 4 different apartments in our one building and our landlord and his family live in the apartment on the bottom floor (we are on the very top). The landlord's granddaughter invited us to a weekly Bible study in their home and we were extremely excited because, being brand new to this country, we were starting to feel accepted. We were told the Bible study started at 6:00 p.m. - automatically we assumed that since we are in Latin America, 6:00 meant about 6:30 or so. At about 6:15 we slowly started making our way down the stairs, only to find that when they said 6:00, they had meant it! They had been sitting around waiting for us to show up and probably wondering why the crazy gringas were so inconsiderate! Oops :) We ended up making really good friends at the Bible study, they forgave us for being late, and we now attend every Friday. We definitely learned our lesson though!