Site assignment and general excitement

So last week I found out where my eventual resting place in burkina faso would be. While I don't think I'm suppose to say exactly where it is I can assure you that is located in the north west corner of the country and very far away from much of anything else. To tell you the truth this is exactly what I wanted to hear. I really wanted to get the BF village feel while I was here and Ouahigouya (where I currently reside) seems to be just a little too big. Also despite its small size my village is going to be near a barrage which means that it will have some of the only fresh fish in Burkina Faso along with nearby rice patties and hippopotami. I'm also to be the only SVT teacher at site which means I'm going to be teaching every life science class the have including the dreaded 3ème. The reason why 3ème has a little more pressure than the others is that at the end of that year they have to take a test which will determine whether or not they can advance to the next stage- their performance determines whether they can advance or not. In fact this is such a responsibility that only 2 PCVs teach this class in the whole country- and none have in their first year. The only reason why I plan on doing it is that I will be replacing a woman named Babet (a god among mortals who I will talk more about later) who was "strongly encouraged" to teach the class simply because the students had no other option and if they wanted to have any chance at all of getting further education someone would have to teach it. This means that the pressure is on for me to learn French. I already train at least 2 hours a day (Outside of the normally allotted training periods which are substantial) but I'm hoping to kick it up a little including more work with the actual scientific text that I will be expected to teach from. There is a lot of material to cover and my vocabulary is insufficient at best at the present moment (not to mention my use of pronouns and prepositions is pretty sad, not to mention that despite my complete knowledge of que/qui usage I still consistently make mistakes). On top of this I have begun to integrate JulaKan (the local language of my region) into my training regiment. Its a wonderfully simplistic and auditory delightful language compared the convoluted European nightmares that I'm used to. One quirk of the language is that you lower your voice as you ask questions which can be rather confusing when alternating between french and Julakan. I'm also already thinking about what secondary projects I want to start up at my site. On thing that is sorely lacking fro the curriculum is a strong evolutionary focus. I am decidedly of the opinion (as most biologists are) that nothing in biology makes sense outside the context of evolution. Bringing that into my education as much as possible will be a focus of mine. I'm hoping on starting a science club that will focus on evolution, Malaria, and HIV/AIDS sensibilization. I also hope to continue the Girls Empowerment club that Babet started. Its going to be a lot of work to integrate myself well into the community, teach and do all this secondary stuff as well but I hope to fit it all in eventually. Don't get me wrong I'm still really relaxed at present moment, but I am concerned about the increase in stress once I get to site.