The days on Kilimanjaro are more alike than you'd think, and the sameness is the point. Here's the shape of one.
Six in the morning
Someone unzips your tent and hands in a mug of tea or coffee, and a bowl of warm water to wash in. It's the small luxury of the whole week. You'll be packing your duffel while you drink it, because the porters need it before they can leave.
Breakfast, around half six
In the mess tent, and bigger than you want. Porridge, eggs, toast, fruit, and more tea. Eat anyway. Higher up your appetite disappears and the calories you didn't take on are the ones you'll miss on summit night. Your guide will probably check your oxygen saturation and pulse here and ask how you slept, how your head is and whether you've got an appetite. Answer honestly, every time.
Walking by half seven
Four to seven hours, depending on the day, at a pace that will feel absurdly slow for the first two days and about right by the fourth. You'll carry a daypack with water, layers, snacks, sunscreen and your camera. Everything else has gone ahead with a porter who left after you and will pass you before lunch.
Lunch somewhere
Either a packed box eaten on a rock, or a hot lunch in the mess tent if the camp is close enough for the crew to set it up. There'll be a flask of soup involved either way, and soup at altitude is better than it has any right to be.
Into camp, early afternoon
Your tent is already up. You sign the register at the ranger's hut, because the park records every climber at every camp. Then there's washing water, and a few hours of doing very little: reading, cards, sorting kit, sleeping. Some days your guide will take you on a short walk uphill and back down before dinner, which is dull and is the single most useful thing you'll do that day. It's called climb high, sleep low, and it works.
Dinner, around six
Soup, a main course that's usually generous, fruit. Another health check. A briefing on tomorrow: distance, height gain, what the walking is like, what to wear.
In the tent by eight
It gets dark fast and cold immediately after. Most people are in a sleeping bag by eight and reading by head torch. You'll be awake a lot at altitude, your breathing will do strange things as you fall asleep, and you'll get up in the night to pee because you've drunk four litres. All of it is normal.
How it changes as you go up
Lower down it feels like a camping holiday. By the fourth day everything is slower: dressing takes longer, you stop talking while walking uphill, and the gap between arriving at camp and getting into the sleeping bag shrinks. That's the mountain, not you going wrong.