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lunt has filled her life
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all been doing music,”
irked of her family.
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; used to sing up at the
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with them and feed me
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year-old music major
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Brass Ensemble, piano
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and takes part in the
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all that might seem
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igs.
usy], but I love it”
d then, Hunt is a guest
flutist in her family’s string quartet
(cello, viola and 2 violins), as well
as their more unusual groups.
“We play chimes as a family,”
she says. “That’s where everyone
has about two or three chimes,
and everybody has a couple of
notes they have to play during the
song.”
Currently pursuing an Associate
of Arts Transfer Degree, Hunt plans
to go to Warner Pacific College,
located in Portland near Mt. Tabor,
for her Music Education degree.
“I love to teach,” said Hunt.“I
would like to be an English teach­
er for Spanish-speaking students, a
Spanish teacher, or music teacher.
Or all three!”
Aside from music, Hunt also
has a love for the Spanish lan­
guage.
“I lived in Mexico for three
months ... I’d love to go back
there, teach more English and
music.”
Indeed, Hunt’s hobbies and
joys have inspired her to fill her
life with them.
“I love talking to people,” she
says. “I love reading and being
outside. I love going to church
... At church, I can do all these
[musical] things, and a lot of peo-
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Student Naomi Hunt currently plays French horn in Clackamas’ Brass Ensemble as
well as playing piano, flute, French horn and singing in the Chamber Ensemble.
pie there are musical, too.”
To Hunt, all of this is much
more than just a passionate extra­
curricular activity.
“The music department espe­
cially is like a family. All die
teachers are kind of like our par­
ents, and we’re all brothers and
sisters,” Hunt said with a smile.
“Sometimes we help each other
and sometimes we’re fighting,
like, ‘Hey, practice harder!”’
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its name describes it
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environment full of
hands-on learning
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gn-up list for the
p to Death Valley is
and quickly filling
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one should go to
illey once in their
amazing,” said stu-
Meyer, who went on
the 2004 trip.
The trip is actually a ten-
day field course offered during
spring break, for three credits.
The class is designed to give
students a face to face look at
biology and geology.
. “I’ve had over 15 years of
teaching this, and students
come back and say, ‘I’ve
learned more in those 10 days
than I have in two years of col­
lege,”’ said Biology Instructor
Jennifer Bown, who leads the
course. “Because it’s in front
of you, you can touch it, you
can feel it, you can see it; so
you just learn it at a different
level, so it’s like that light bulb
comes on.”
The course involves every­
thing from camping and hiking,
to lectures and field work..
“Being able to just hike in
this beautiful country was just
wonderful to walk through,” want to get to the highest point in your life.”
said Meyer.
and see everything you can,”
To secure a place on the list,
Students will also get to see said Meyer. “If you go it will please see on page 2 for contact
many different aspects of the be the best, most awesome trip information.
desert.
“We’ll take them to the low­
est point in North America, and
they’ll see what total desert
valley floor looks like,” said
Bown. “We’ll take them into
the mountains and we’ll basi­
cally work our way up in eleva­
tion until we get up to probably
about six to seven thousand
feet at.the snow line.”
Before the trip students are
given a topic to research, and
do a small group presentation
while in Death Valley.
“Each of us taught a little
mini-class, so not only are you
learning from [the instructors],
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but from each other. It’s great
ABOVE and LEFT: Students hike through Twenty Mule
to hear your peers teaching
Team Canyon in Death Valley during the 2004 trip.
you,” said Meyer.
The students will also keep
a journal during the trip, and
take a final at the end of it.
“What they will write in
their journal is other students’
presentations, and the lectures,
and general information that’s
of interest to them,” said Bown.
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“You know, what did they find
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significant, and ‘What cool ani­
mal did you find today?”’
Natural
History
of
Southwestern Deserts (BI 165)
will be offered March 17-26.
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Cost for the trip will be cost
of tuition plus $225, which
includes travel, lodging, and
most food.
There is only room for 22
students in the course so those
interested should sign up as
soon as possible. The require­
ments are that you put your
name on thé list and get an
instructor recommendation.
“It’s one of those places
when you go once, you just fall
in love with it,” said Bown.
There’s nothing I can think I’d
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rather do over spring break than
go hang out in Death Valley.
With a career less
It’s a magical place. It’s just
really pretty.”
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