Dad- your jokes on your comments are lame but I still love you

I am so happy here it is overwhelming. Today, Casey, Mackenzie and I woke up at 6, left for our school at 6:45 where we were given Thai music lessons (Thai instruments have startlingly beautiful tones) from a few students. They asked me to play the keyboard for them and I played the first page of my recital piece (Debussy's Reverie) but I could only find the first page for free online so I didn't really give the performance of the year to say the least. The students and music teacher working with us were volunteering to teach us completely out of their own free will.. I rarely see such friendliness in the States. After our music lesson, we taught our morning classes. We exlained 4th of July and played a game to celebrate.. they really liked the game and it has been one of the best methods of teaching English yet. In honor of the day, we decided to teach the class Don Mclean's "American Pie" so with the use of my ipod and a projecter, we put lyrics with words blanked out and had them fill in the words.. this is both a listening comprehension and vocabulary lesson but mostly its very fun. Lots of dancing and jumping and giggling.. all around good times. After our first two classes, the three of us chilled, and I played them lots of music from Amadou and Mariam (and thought of you, Jules) and Elvis Perkins to Beethoven's Ave Maria. The three of us mesh perfectly and we are all just so incredibly happy to be here. We then had lunch and around 25 kids raided our classroom during our lunchtime to take photos, dance, run around and get our autographs (craaazy). Lots of hugs and "I love you"s were exchanged. After lunch we were hyper and the next class was hyper. BAD (or wonderful?) combination. Mackenzie calls us the Three Stooges b/c the three of us spent more time pushing eachther and teasing than being calm teachers. We played the word scramble game and Casey got soo frustrated teaching that adjectives go before nouns (in Thai its the oppostite) that I honestly thought her head was going explode. The last class, Casey completely crashed and fell asleep at her desk while Mackenzie and I ran the class. After that class we went outside, sat in the shade, and juggled soccer balls with the kids during their gym class. I made a kid cry when accidentlly kicked the ball in his face.. good thing I'm making a positive change in Thailand, right?