What I did my first week at Post:

-Started teaching all the kids and the village to call me Kristina instead of Yovo or the previous volunteer's name; it's starting to be successful!
-Visited the dispensaire (the health center) in my village regularly and found a way to participate in the baby weighing sessions to make them run faster and more efficiently
-Found someone to start teaching me Kabiye in exchange for English lessons; the same person is also really motivated to help me with my sensibilizations (or, teaching sessions on subjects like HIV/AIDS etc) and to help me find other motivated young adults who I can train as village health workers
-Argued with the village carpenters after I realized that they made my furniture smaller than the dimensions I had ordered. They claimed that the paper that had the measurements on it was ruined in a rainstorm.
-Went to the fields and helped harvest corn with the family who lives in the same compound as me.
-Mastered lighting a charcoal fire (!!!)
-Started running regularly again in the mornings and found some guys and girls in the village who want to start running with me as well
-Ate fufu (a local popular village dish made from boiled yams) that was prepared with local well water without getting sick! That means my stomach is starting to habituate to the environment
-Killed a spider as big as my hand that I found on my bedpost one night with my shower sandal
-Figured out how to make Chai from scratch! (it's the closest I'll get to Starbucks out here)
-Bought paint and flooring to redo the inside of my house on my own and had cushion covers made for my new couch by a local seamstress
- Successfully made it through my first moto taxi rides without dying; I was scared to ride them at first but now I actually enjoy riding them

So little by little I'm settling in!