[Bleh. Well, he tried. He lifts those aside and tosses them out of the way, and moves on to what appears to be a broken table of some sort, splintered everywhere.]

He was in my class back home.

[Awkward.]

He's pretty cool . . . y'know, he's that really plain ordinary kinda guy you don't think about a lot, but then he's totally there for you when you don't expect it.