Greetings from Bangkok, Thailand

This post was the first email I sent after I arrived in Bangkok, Thailand to teach English:

Hello Everyone,

Sawat Dii, Krahp!
Greetings from Bangkok, Thailand.

This is my big e-mail that I'm sending to lots of people. I won't send very many like this. I will start updating my online journal soon. I have not talked with some of you in so long that you may not know what I am up to at the moment. I am currently in Bangkok, Thailand. I will be teaching English for the next nine months.

Here is a brief update of what is going on right now. I am having a blast! I graduated on Saturday, May 19th. Then I caught a flight on Wednesday morning and I arrived in Bangkok on Thursday at 10:30 pm local time. The time is about 12 hours different from Central Standard Time. I didn't suffer from jet lag too badly, but I don't want to go near a stinkin' plane again for a while.  It was so boring. The day after I got to Bangkok I went on a bus trip with some of the other teachers from the school. What a great cure for a plane trip, right? I don't know what I was thinking. It was a very long bus trip. They told me it would only be three hours. It ended up being seven hours. Oh well. It was fun. I got to meet other teachers before school started. The other teachers who went were mostly Thai. But two Australians came along too. After getting back from the bus trip yesterday, I taught my first day of school today.
The kids were hard to control. Some of them were well behaved, but others were just running around the room. I told them to sit down but either they didn't understand or they pretended not to. I had almost no preparation time. I was given a lesson plan half an hour before class.  But I did get some things accomplished.  I took attendance and taught some of them how to say "Hello, my name is ..." Fortunately, Namon, the lead teacher of the 2nd grade, came by and helped me get the class under control. Some of them started their homework and some even finished in class. One kid was very funny. He wrote his answers in a fluorescent pen so they would be invisible. Then, he showed me with a big smile as he lit up the letters with a special light. Another kid was a troublemaker. He got up on a chair, bent a plastic ruler and then launched it in the air at the ceiling. Later, I was talking to the class with a microphone. I asked each kid, 'What is your name?' He ran up and shouted, "JAPON!" into the microphone then he ran back and sat down. He is a very funny kid!
Well I'm going to write some more individual emails, but I won't be able to write everyone individually. Please be patient for a response from me if you write me an email. God bless you all. I will keep you in my thoughts.