Now, That's Using Your Head

The posture of Tanzanian people is something to be admired. It's a common thing to carry things on the head instead of hands. There is no limit of what someone can put on their head. The most common example is the woman walking down the road with a bucket or basin of water on her head.

Around the house, there is a man who sells sweeping brushes. His stock is kept in a sack which he keeps on his head while walking around, shouting that he is selling sweeping brushes.
Also around the house, but I've only seen this man once, is a man who sells rat poison packets, and again, walks around with them on his head.

Some of the stranger items I've seen on a person's head (starting with the smallest):

• A girl in a school uniform walking with one small copy book on her head.
• A man walking with a perfectly folded shirt on his head


• The brooms and rat poison have already been mentioned


• And to show how technology is advancing all across the world, I saw a woman with........a desktop computer on her head (excluding the monitor)
  

Their balance is quite amazing. It was only today when I was cycling to work, a woman with a bucket of water crossed my path without looking, I skidded, she jumped and the water barely rippled.

I still don't see the point in walking with something on your head that is so small or light that it would be easier to hold it in your hand rather than walking around like you have a spoon up your bum.

Anyway, that's life, or as they say in France.... zat is laf !!