Daily Itinerary

The day in the life of a Niamian Citizen:



5:00am - Wake up early and to create breakfast for the rest of the family.

6:00am - Rest of family wakes up. Everyone sits at the kitchen table to eat and discuss about the dreams they had that night.

7:00am - Kids head off to school. Father goes out to the field and plows the farm. Mother cleans up the house.

8:00am - Mother finishes the house and goes to the field to help the Father. Both of them water and tend to the food.

9:00am - Mother goes to the barn and starts feeding the livestock. Father continues out in the farm.

10:00am - Continued from 9:00am

11:00am - Wife finishes taking out eggs and slaughtering the pigs for bacon and cows for beef. She brings the food inside the house and then heads off to the downtown district to pick up anymore food needed for lunch. Husband comes inside to get the lunch table set.

12:00pm - Kids who are 12+ come home to work on the field while father sets table. Mother returns with the food and begins to prepare lunch.

1:00pm - Mother, Father and 12+ kids come inside to eat lunch that is fresh from this morning.

2:00pm - The other kids return home and start their homework. 12+ year old kids begin their homework as well. Mother tends to the field. Father cleans up lunch and heads downtown for other job.

3:00pm - Continued from 2:00pm

4:00pm - Continued from 2:00pm

5:00pm - Mother brings in and food to start dinner. Kids finish their homework and then go outside to play for 1 hour.

6:00pm - Dinner is almost done. Father returns home and kids come inside to get dinner set up.

7:00pm - Family sits at the dinner table and eat and talk about the adventures they did that day.

8:00pm - Mother cleans up table and Father and children go to the living room to do a family activity. When mother is finished cleaning, she joins them.

9:00pm - Kids go to bed to get ready for the next day. Father and Mother go to bedroom to read the daily government handout.

10:00pm - Parents go to bed after reading.

11:00pm-5:00pm - Sleep.

3:00pm -