You're going to Benin?... Where's that?

I'm going to Benin, West Africa this summer and staying for two years. If it sounds daunting to you, well it's even more so to me. But life is for living right, not wondering about what you could do and regretting you didn't. Life is about going places and doing things. I remind myself of those things and it makes me feel better about my decision.
Anyway so I've just finished filling out the more important pieces of paperwork from the Peace Corps invitee packet. By packet I mean small filing cabinet FULL of paperwork. And I received this right at the busy time of my college semester, figures. When it rains it pours. But I have all my visa and passport info out, and I checked it only about 100 times for errors or places that I forgot to fill in. They should be good.
I also received word back from Benin and they now have my updated resume and aspiration statement. DONE! I bet just when I think I might be done with some of the paperwork from them they send me another large packet to fill out. I'm pretty sure I've sent the same information to at least three different places. The number of times I've had to write my SSN on a paper it's a wonder that it hasn't yet got into the wrong hands and my identity stolen. That would be bad.
I'm currently attempting to relearn french. The software that the Peace Corps gives me to do so is awesome. Very easy. I'm sure I won't be saying that as lessons become harder and I don't remember my high school french anymore but whatever. Is something really worth learning if you don't have to struggle with it at least a little? And whoever said that four years of high school french just because wasn't going to do me any good, well guess what I've found a way to prove you wrong. I guess instead I could have taken a nice cushy job in some cubicle without sunlight where my stapler is constantly missing. But that sounds boring. Nope I've traveling 1/2 way around the world to west Africa to use my environmental science degree! What fun! Well those are some thoughts for today.