Cultural Post 6

[Taylor Johnson]

As in most post Soviet countries, is very important to be on time in Ukraine. While it is customary to be "fashionably late" to events and parties in America, being late for things with a set starting time in Ukraine is considered very rude. This attitude about time carries over into multiple different aspect of life in Ukraine. For one thing, train schedules are incredibly precise. If your train ticket says that you will depart at 5:03pm and arrive at 8:17pm, those are the exact times that you can expect to leave and arrive. The same thing usually goes for public transportation as well. It is in fact more common for a bus to not show up at all than it is for a bus to be off schedule.