PARALLEL WORLDS - ETHIOPIA

After 3 days we reached Gondar, the previous capital of Ethiopia, and started noticing bizarre phenomena...

People would have lunch at 6 am and go to bed at 4 pm. The newspaper was dated June 1987, but we were in February 1995! Sammy, a witty 9 yr-old, explained to us that the Julian calendar has 12 months of 30 days and 1 month of 5 to 6 days. "For us, the first hour of the day is when you get up, doesn't that make sense?" he said. What if you don't get up all at the same time?