a hole in the wall

today i arrived at work and was greeted with some unfortunate news. apparently, last night at senior high youth group, during an ill-advised game of flashlight hide and seek, one of the students ran into the wall in the fellowship hall. he appears to have been traveling with such a velocity that his body cracked the drywall cleanly in two, leaving a person-sized hole in the middle of the wall. rumor has it that he thought he was running through a door. (there are no doors, mind you, within four feet of the new portal.) the hole begins about eighteen inches above the floor, and ends just above my head, at five feet and four inches off the ground. it is also about two feet wide. the building and grounds committee is, unsurpisingly, not thrilled. our first concern is of course the safety and well-being of the student, but as he appears to have won the fight with the drywall and sustained no significant injuries, we shift our concern to the gaping hole. this is sure to be a headache for weeks on end. perhaps i'll post a picture tomorrow.