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4 Clackamas Print Brother and sister: I Jeff Sorensen II The Clackamas Print Editors ’ note: This is the first part of a three-part series on the Kamahoahoa siblings, Malia and Ryan. Success in sports is sometimes defined by something other than stats and leader boards. Sometimes, to a player, it’s defined by little moments in a game that have a deeper meaning off the court. Clackamas freshman volley ball player Malia Kamahoahoa, with her younger brother Ryan cheering from the crowd, had one of those moments this season ...a moment, according to their story, which might never have happened. Bryan and Jackie Kamahoahoa, Ryan and Malia’s parents, met playing volleyball in the service. Both parents now coach volley ball, and Ryan and Malia’s oldest sister, Lelani, plays volleyball pro fessionally. This family ... likes volleyball. Malia began playing volleyball at a young age, but she has other interests in addition to sports. With her sister staying focused primarily on volleyball, and her older brother, Derek, busy on the football and wrestling teams in high school, Malia’s love of art and music made her the “odd man out” in her family “I was the ‘darker child.’ My parents never really understood me, and I definitely had my time in high school where it was ... ‘fun,’” she admits. “They don’t get the tattoo or the lip ring, and they never will. They’ll never really understand it, and that’s okay. I love them, and I know they love me.” In spite of her interest in the arts, there was something about Malia that her family understood very clearly: Malia loved sports. “I was her first coach,” said Jackie. “She was a little 10-year-old, and I coached a 14- and-under team. She was the youngest player out there.” In addi tion to volley ball, Malia also played junior varsity basket ball for Oregon City High School when she was only a freshman. “By nature, she’s just ath letic. No matter what ball she picked up, from when she was little, she was very gifted ath letically,” Jackie said. After a year on the basketball team, Malia had to make a choice. She could stick with basketball, or she could continue to play for Nike’s prestigious-volleyball club, where - her mom explained - she Inspired by music, inspiring new poets Ott Tammik The Clackamas Print Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print Wjat? Students from both schools will be hosted by students from our sister school in Stadthagen, German Tire Stay in Gcnnany In addition to time spent at and in the vicinity of our sister school, die Berufsbildene Schule Stadthagen, our students choose from among trips to Hannover, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin and others. Your host family will provide free room and board including sack lunches for outings JF ¿¡Lgi j *4 / Your instructor will help you make your own arrangements to get to nearby Hannover by June 14*. Your host family will pick you up from the train station or the airport, make sure you arrive at daily meeting points, and will return you to the airport or train station on July 6. ’Round-trip feres have for June and July have recently sold for between $1200 amd $1500. Individuals may be able to find better offers. . ’ x u j*. . - A L«wy The CCC / MHCC program officially endsAJuly 6, You may, however, choose to extend your visit on your own. W • CCC college credit. jW 11» 1 CCC students can earn up to 3 CCC Independent Study credits for their travel to Germany | through projects of various kinds. Hosting the German Students Participants are asked to host a German student during tfjeir visit to Oregon, during fell term, 2007. Host families provide meals, including sack lunches for outings. They are also asked to provide transportation to and from meeting points or to assist their guests in using mass transat. To learn more, contact: David Miller (503) 657-6958 Ext. 2257 millerd@clackamas.edu Eric Tschuy (503) 491-7469 Eric.Tschuy@mhcc.edu » Application deadline: March 31,2007 a lot, and Malia hates to run, so wasn’t a hard decision for her.” After juggling four years < Nike and high school, Malia grai uated class of 2002 and moved Los Angeles for a few years whei she lived with a friend and spa time with her sister. She also in tially had no intention of comir back. averaging 7.89 assists per game.! Room and Board Free! < had secured a spot on their ‘top team’ at 14 and played until she graduated high school. “Maha wasn’t willing to give up volleyball, which was her first sport. After her first year, we said, ‘You probably need to pick one or the other,’ because her knees just weren’t able to withstand both of them,” she said. “Oregon City runs art, as well as sports. LEFT: Kamahoahoj took 10th place I in assists for the I NWAAC champion] ship tournament,! And Mt. Hood Community College invite you to spend June 14 to July 6, 2007 Requirements: • Be 18 or travel with a parent • Pay for your round trip ticket • Agree to host a German student in the Fall of 2007 Outcast OC girl move, away from home FAR LEFT: Malia Kamahoahoa enjoys music andj Three Weeks in Germany Clackamas Community College Getting to Feature! Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007 You can: • Begin or improve your German • Sample the beauty, culture and history of Germany • Make German friends for life • Earn up to 3 college credits If he’s not teaching or help ing out at the Writers’ Club, Clackamas instructor James Grabill is often busy composing his own work. “I began thinking of writing as a part-time job I’d always have in addition to my money making job,” said Grabill, who has been hanging around the English Department for the past 16 years. Grabill has published nine collections of his poems and two collections of essays. Of these works, four vol umes have been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and in 1995, he won with his book Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone. Attending Grabill’s class for the first time, GRABILL a student might find a timid and soft-spoken char acter with shaggy hair. Grabill is very much a product of the ‘60s and is affected as much by musi cians as writers. In tire age of rock and roll and the political chaos of the Kent State riots, not far from where he lived, Grabill recalls candlelit meetings, where he and friends would talk, play instruments and sing together. In the midst of the charged and confused youth of America, Grabill looked to express his own energy through writing, as he “gave himself to the process,” to find “intensified meaning.” Inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, he began writing as a senior in high school and soon found himself behind the type writer more and more. “My mom used to get angry at me, in fact, if I wouldn’t come out of my room when I was in the middle of writing something,” said Grabill. Though Grabill has experi mented with different genres of writing, he considers poetry clos est to his heart “Some poetry is like classical music. Some is like progressive jazz. Some is similar to sappy mood music. Some is like Indian reggae. Some is like folk,” he j said . It was also poetry which led him to teaching, and eventu ally to Clackamas. Grabill now teaches a variety of writing and literature courses. “Most of the classes I teach I have been favorites at one time or another, including Creative Nonfiction [and] Poetry,” he said, adding however, that Shakespeare is the most j “enjoyable and fulfilling.” “The plays,” | he said, “are | packed with | riches. The lan-1 guage teaches I about some of the origins ofj our present-day | English. The I material speaks | to the roots of I our souls, and I the students add I so much.” Aloyal envi ronmentalist, | Grabill is excited about a class I he is currently co-teaching called “Pathways to Sustainability.” I The course explores the effects of climate change and is “a look at what has become the prima ry challenge of our time,” as described by Grabill. Students find Grabill to be a huge support, and he encourages j individuals with an interest in] writing to join the Writers’ Club I on campus, welcoming writers of all types and skill levels. “I think everyone who writes has a unique reason ... I do think j everyone has a voice, everyone j has subject matter, and anyone can choose the path of poetry. What everyone doesn’t have, for I whatever reason, is imperative to follow the path,” he said. Grabill suggests writers to practice the way a musician does: by learning “one’s rhythms, j phases and times of peak perfor mance.” “Be open, humble, unique,] assertive ... and here, everyone would need to continue on their ■ own.”-
