Hakuna Matata - Is a very fitting phrase here. Life is busy here but the attitude is very laid back. My Typical day is I wake up at 6 am from the Church bells ringing. I live in Block B which is where the Teachers, priests, and brothers live. I will post a picture of what my room looks like. From there I head to church where we meet for morning prayer. After morning prayer is mass. They 4 days of the week the mass is in Kiswahili and the other three it is in English. I actually prefer mass in Kiswahili for the simple fact of the singing. I don't know if they are natural born singers or if they have been singing all there life. But in Kiswahili they sound incredible with the harmony they make. After mass they have meditation for about 15 minutes. Then everyone heads to the cafeteria for breakfast. I eat everyday with the Seminarians here. Breakfast is always the same. It is bread, butter and Jam. Somedays they also have porridge.  Yesterday I went in to town just to get peanut butter. I feel I need to eat at least something different.
After breakfast I head to the clinic here. They found out I'm in the medical field and instantly got lots of jobs in the clinic.  Brother Philip runs the clinic. He is about 5,8 ", he has a budha belly and shaves his head. He also has the craziest wondering eye I have ever seen. He is my walemu or teacher. He is kinda like me Yoda here. He has a low voice but when he laughs it is high pitched and he sounds just like Yoda. He is really pushing me to learn the language by constantly talking to me and asking questions in Swahili. He is very patient with me. In the clinic when a patient comes I find there medical information card. It would be nice they had a computer system where you could type the name into a computer and pull up there medical record. Instead I have to flip through papers. At least it is alphabatized. This first part really gives me a chance to talk to the patient in Swahili and practice. I then will take the patients weight and blood pressure. I then send them to Brother Philip who listens to what there problem is. They will then come out with there medical chart and hand it too me and then I will go to the room full of medications. There pharmacy which Brother Adalid is there most of the time doing. But he gets busy so I will help[ be the pharmcist and fill a prescription of Tylenol or what ever it is. Then I give the patient there medication and explain what they need to do. I usually always do this in English.
Lunch is usually rice or Ugali which looks like mash potatoes but it is flour and corn mashed together. It is very flavor less and tasteless. I bought chili sauce to spice it up a bit. Then there is a soupy sauce that you pour on top which sometimes has a little bit of beef in it. Then there is either shredded up ,cooked up cabbage or spinach. Sometimes there is beans too with lunch. Dinner is usually the same with sometimes bigger chunks of meat on the side. We have had corn on the cob twice which is never cooked all the way through. So the corn is still semi hard. We had a cooked bananas with fish once. It is very popular dish in the Kilamanjaro region. Food isn't bad here it is just the same thing everyday.
After lunch I usually go back to the clinic to help out. The average patient is in there for Malaria. It is a common as the flu. Everyone gets in and everyone knows there own symptoms. I can't believe how many different malaria medications there are. Many people here have had malaria at least 3-4 times in there life already. Every one gets it here so it is no big deal too them.
One thing I learned right away is when you introduce yourself you shake the persons hand but you don't let go until the conversation is over. It basically means, "Hey I have your total attention". It was weird for me at first because I would be talking to someone for a couple minutes and were holding hands the entire time. You see people everywhere walking around holding hands and talking. Tanzanians love to talk. Lots of time is spent just talking to other people. Everyone says hello to everyone. Everyone here is extremely friendly. Everyone wants to talk to you so you can't help but learn the language.
After the clinic around 4:30pm-5pm everyone plays either soccer or basketball for an hour. It is always the hottest I think at this point in the day. It rains everyday for at least a little bit which is nice because it cools the temperature down. They have about 10 cows that walk around eating grass. They have a few pigs and they have a good size garden as well. All the food we eat comes from here on the university except for just a few things come from town. That is why we eat the same thing everyday. They have gutters on all there roofs and leads to pipes that go into a big drainage system. They could easily collect the water here with the system they already have set up. The electricity doesn't always work everyday and same with the internet. I'm guessing the computer I am typing on now is ten years old. It is fun to see all the old American shirts. Like the Make 7 and UP YOURS on the back. I actually got a picture with a guy wearing a Northwest Uniform. I could not believe it when I saw it. I have seen old Randy moss jerseys and John Randle Jerseys. You will see everything here.
At 6:10 they have prayer then dinner. After dinner the Salvatorians will have a separate prayer service and the Benedicts will have a separate one and so on and so forth. I can't believe how westernized it is here. The university has about 1,500 students. I think I mentioned before that 3/4 of the students are on loans from the government. The majors here are business, education, philosophy, sociology and theology. They want to start a science program here. Education is definitely the key thing here in Morogoro I guess there is 5 other universities. Everyone speaks English here incredibly well. They are trying to educate as many people as possible but in the country of Tanzania you have to pay for education. So a child only goes to school if the family can afford it. Community is very important here. Infact I think it is the most important thing to Tanzanians. So this is an over view of the week. I'll try to give a better detailed story later.

Kwa Heri from Morogoro