"hope they have an awesome time..."

Every Monday, we have a student lead prayer over the intercom. I am not sure whether they volunteer or are chosen but either way, they are always clearly nervous. While they typically all pray for the same thing (good grades, no injuries during sports, etc) today was the best/worst moment of intercom prayer yet.

When praying for people suffering from the famine in the horn of Africa, an 8th grade boy said the following:

"and for the people in the horn of Africa (insert long awkward pause)...help them to...have an awesome time. yeah, i don't know." {end of prayer}

I felt so bad for this kid but also had to laugh because, wow...

the couch.

So i have a couch in my room that is a pretty hot commodity during "brain break" time. during my 4th block, I have one rather large, sweaty kid who always rushes to sit down on it and interestingly enough, he never has any competition for space.

today, however, was a new story. the large, sweaty boy was laying on the couch and the new korean exchange student decided he wanted to sit there too. large-sweaty wouldn't get up so korean exchange sat down on top of him. there was some wrestling that ensued and then this is what I heard:

random 8th grade boy: "large sweaty (of course he used his name) is flirting with the new kid"

large sweaty: "no i'm not, he's just sitting on my head."

what. the. heck.