(To continue the subject from yesterday's post) -- More luxuries that we take for granted:

Hot water running from a faucet! Do you know how few people in the world enjoy that luxury?

A toilet that you can sit on! (In Tanzania, hotels/hostels and restaurants catering to American tourists have such plumbing installed. In fact, at the Mongai Parish, in a new building intended to house a vocational training school, exactly one such toilet has been installed! But, for the most part, Tanzanians "do their business" into a hole in the ground. Literally. The folks at the last parish we visited, Lositete, were very proud of their hospitality towards us -- in that they had dug a new latrine. It was in the middle of the field outside the church building. For privacy, sticks had been lashed together around it.)

Electricity that's dependable!