4:00 a.m. - Women wake to prepare breakfast and lunch

5:00 a.m. - Wake up whistle

5:45 a.m. - Gather at train or walk to field

6:00 a.m. - Workday begins

8:00 a.m. - Small Kau Kau time

(10 minute break)

11:30 a.m. - Kau Kau (lunch) time

12:00 p.m. - Kau Kau Pau - GO WORK, AGAIN!

4:30 p.m. - Pau Hana (work finish) whistle

8:00 p.m. - Lights out whistle

Fieldwork was backbreaking, monotonous, hot, and low paid. It was a common experience forging cross - cultural connections between ethnic groups.

Regardless of their ethnicity, every fieldworker sweated, endured the wrath of their luna [overseer] and went to bed exhausted. Fieldwork demanded the same hard work of everyone.

Their common experiences in the fields built the foundations for later connections in the community. Sharing hard work in the fields, they slowly shared their off hours and favorite activities, especially as a second generation of children grew up together in schools and the fields.

They worked as:

Tinsmiths-Is a person who makes or repairs tinware.

Stone Cutters-Cut stones for building walls, houses, ditches, sidewalks, headstones, and any other thing that requires stone.

Carpenters- Person whose work is building and repairing the wooden parts of houses, ships, etc.

Blacksmiths- Person who makes things out of iron by heating it in a forge and hammering it into shape on an anvil. Blacksmiths mend tools and horseshoes.

Barbers- Person whose business is cutting hair and shaving or trimming beards. 

Fieldworkers- Are people who work on various types of fields.

During the olden days the immigrants got their supplies from a plantation general store. They didn't have to pay any money for the things that they got from the store. They had to charge it on their bango tag (Identification tag). The plantation store sold things like rakes, clothing, food, tools utensils and hair products.

Each ethnic group had a different shape bango tag, including one for the children that worked on the plantation. Each tag had a number and was used to buy things at the store. The plantation would take some of the worker's pay to pay off his charges to the store.

The store sold many different items., including clothes and sundries. Most anything you needed would be at the plantation store.