Shadows

Yesterday at dinner someone asked me why I thought almost no one wears watches in Tanzania. I thought it was because everyone here seems to own at least one phone, usually two, and sometimes three.

However, it turns out that everyone here knows how to tell time based on their shadow. The daylight hours here fluctuate by no more than five minutes in a year, and are almost always 12 hours long.

I am on a mission to learn how to use this nifty, new, natural, clock and will report back once I have become an expert shadow-reader.