The typical Nevisian day

A typical day runs from 8AM till about 2AM. Banks and the post office close super early, and grocery stores around 7. Some are open later.

8 is when the day begins, and a lot of the time, people are late to their jobs. It seems to be a culture of people who do not want to work. Wait a minute, they DON'T want to work!

You are hard pressed to find someone who is willing to help you if you ask. Some people will, but not too pleasantly. It's like they are doing you some huge favor to answer a question, even with something as simple as what time it is.

Lunch time is crazy in town. I tried to avoid it, if possible. It's loud, full of kids, and hard to navigate. No one wants to move ever, so driving through the little streets can be difficult, especially if you have limited time.

Most people stop working at 2. Sometime they never work. You see construction workers laying on the job, smoking pot, and drinking. This is typical. It is probably why it takes 90 years to complete a job, and I am sure you will notice all the homes that were started but never finished. I wonder if the new MUA building is completed by now? Anyone know? MUA was building a new facility for the students that was supposed to be opened a year a half when I was there, yet it was not anywhere close by the time I left.

Overall, people are not that nice. You can find some pleasant people once in awhile, but it is hard. They are racisits towards foreigners there. Even if you are of African descent. As soon as you speak, they know you are not from there. Oh yeah, everyone in Nevis is African Caribo. So the MUA students are minorities.

I learned from locals that were friendly, that most the islanders have a disdain for whites because of slavery in the sugar cane days. Which is funny, because they never worked the sugar cane fields, they brough over slaves from Antigua to do it for them. Or so I was told by the older people of the island.

It's kind of sad yes, but the people as a whole have not done anything to help themselves since the British up and left Nevis and St. Kitts. They found that it was cheaper to get their sugar ffrom India. So now all the Nevisians are mad at them, since they left them with nothing. But slavery did end a whole 100 years earlier than slavery in the US. You would think with that head start, they would have been able to figure out something by now. But like I said, they don't want to work.

Anyways, I am off topic. The typical day is hot, slow, and lazy. Most people get their stuff done in the morning before it gets too hot, and hide in their homes all day till it cools off. And I don't blame them.

For us students, out day is spent in a little, tiny classroom from 8-5, and possibly later. Try and shower at night since the water tends to go out in the AM. Power goes off quite often, and sometimes for the entire day. Luckily for us, the school had generators, so we can do work there. And the rest of the time is spent studying the 10 textbooks of information we sat and learned that day. More on that another time!