A Day in the Life Part 3

Usually, the man is the earliest riser. Depending on his job, usually he has a little farm and some cows, or is a mason. Either way, they are up earlier to start work earlier and have a longer lunch. If you have cows, you have to milk them before the milk truck comes to pick up the milk. In the morning, generally the men tend to their fields – watering them, scaring away the birds, harvesting whatever they are growing, and replanting. If it is a mason, they are constructing usually a house from about 7 until 11:30 and then in the afternoon again at about 2 until 5. In regards to their responsibility to the house – they don’t have many. If something needs fixing, that’s about it, but usually the wife helps. When they come home, they generally relax in the hammock, eat, or watch TV. They don’t interact with their kids usually or help with homework (actually no one really does this). It’s very much segregated into what the men can do and what they can’t do. Same goes for the women – they don’t work in the fields nor do they do construction, but they are expected to serve their husbands literally and have a much more subservient attitude. Maybe this is no surprise …