Today at 11:40 am we stood in the sun and made no shadow.(actually we were in church) Swaziland is located at about 25 degrees South latitude. It is the same distance South of the Equator as South Florida is North of the Equator.
Science and math lesson: The earth is tilted 23 degrees on its axis. The angle of the sun is very close to being perpendicular to the tangent line to the earth at this time of the year here in Swaziland. (We knew you really wanted to know this information.)
Why at 11:40 am? We are at the Eastern side of our time zone. Day light now starts at 4 am and full darkness is at 7:20 pm. 11:40 am is half way between those two times. We do not have day light savings time in Swaziland.
Today the sun came up at 28 degrees South of East and it will go down at 28 degrees South of West. What is the angle of the sun rise and sun set where you live?
To our Son, this information was already in the works before your e-mail came in this morning. See 2 good minds work together.
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Will, what no formulas?
We had our Christmas Canata today and again I missed you both in the choir. We sang They Call Him Jesus, which we did the first Christmas we were hear I think.
Pray for our Pastor, we have had 3 funerals and a short memorial service since the week before Thanksgiving, these are church members, he also had one for a Sylvania Police person, and you know how hard that is.
Remember we are praying for you.
Have a different but Wonderful Christmas. We have 3 degrees.
Love,
Jayne, dale and joanne
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