A Hammer Perseveres – January 31, 2010

We received very sad news earlier this month that Mr. Hammerschmidt would not be able to join us on our trip to Mongolia due to health issues. Of course, we all wish for Mr. Hammerschmidt’s good health and hope to see him join future GP members on their trip to another country. Replacing Mr. Hammerschmidt is Mr. Matheny’s cousin Dave McCallum, Mr. McCallum is also a teacher, a teacher in Surrey who is trying to get a program like this in his school which I think is great. I’m looking forward to working with and getting to know Mr. McCallum.

Though Mr. Hammerschmidt is no longer coming with us to Mongolia, it’s not like he just got up and left us. Mr. Hammerschmidt is still working as hard as ever to get preparations done for our trip to Mongolia. I don’t know the feeling of working so hard for something like our trip and then not being able to go on it but i’m sure it must be devastating. So I’d like to thank Mr. Hammerschmidt for helping us just as much as he has in the past regardless of this sad news.

We’ve been lucky enough to have a hammer with us to help build our way to the trip for Mongolia.  Though at one point the hammer slips from our hands, drops, and hits us surprisingly hard. But we endure the hit, and so does the hammer. Only a few seconds pass until we pick up that very same hammer on the ground to have that hammer again continue to aid us with our build-up. And then we see. We see that though the hammer was dropped and has taken a hit, the hammer still performs and helps us as well as it has before as if nothing had happened.

A hammer is tough and will persevere through the hits without compromising the job that needs to be done.