Can I just say...?

Can I just say that Mike had me laughing so hard the other night when he was telling me about kids in his PE classes telling him he had hairy legs? Now granted, I know they are elementary kids but most of these kids have a father figure in their life and most of the women around here don't shave their legs, so you'd think that they'd have seen hairy legs before! But what got me rolling was when he told me that when he sits in a circle with them each morning (remember that they have NO concept of personal space), the kids that sit next to him sometimes will pull on his leg hairs. One boy even told him that he thought it was cool to do that since he could see his skin "pull up" in little dots. What does Mike do about all of this? He simply ignores them. [SIGH] The joys of working with the little ones.

In other somewhat funny news, since Mike is coaching a U-13 soccer team, he was asked to think about doing a Tuesday afternoon life group with the team. A life group is basically a small group or discipleship program here at school to support those that a Christians, to get kids that aren't Christians to perhaps start asking some tough questions, etc... but in a sense it's more like FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes). Well, since Mike's team doesn't have practice on Tuesdays, he can't make the life group mandatory. So optional it was, and for his first life group session he had two kids... which unfortunately isn't all that surprising considering the number of Christians at this school. So Mike was talking about teamwork and working together for his first session. While he's reading 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 about being one body with many members, suddenly one of the two boys starts laughing. The boy apologizes and says, "I'm sorry, it's just that you sound like a sports commentator!"

It's official...kids are so weird!