I attended the art institute of Orange County from 2003-2005 but couldn’t finish because of financial reasons but now I have the chance to finish my degree online with the Art Institute in Pittsburgh, I should be done in two years, and then I can work on getting my masters here in Germany.
Derrick's Life List
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1. set up my two aquariums
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2. Make it a habit to Practice Yoga daily
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3. make it a habit to exercise daily
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4. gain weight up to 185 or 190 by the end of july
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5. make it a habit to draw every day
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6. finish paintings and start a new one
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7. finish writing and illustrating a faithful day
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8. finish my bachelors degree
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9. Create a portfolio online with website and everything
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10. get a masters degree
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11. Learn Japanese
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12. learn french
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13. Learn Spanish
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14. learn how to drive stick-shift
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15. Study handwriting analysis
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16. Learn C programming
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17. learn to cook. Really cook.
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18. Get braces
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19. read every book I own
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20. learn Russian
2,363 people -
21. learn arabic
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22. create a computer game
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23. pay off my student loans
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24. get out of debt
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25. Become Financially Independent
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26. Learn a martial art
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27. learn kung fu
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28. learn Tai Chi
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29. Learn to play the guitar
12,293 people -
30. build a guitar
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31. Learn to play the piano
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32. Get a PhD
2,672 people -
33. Learn to fly
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34. Design, build, manufacture, distribute a game.
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35. learn to teach EFL
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36. learn to breakdance
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37. learn to play the violin
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38. design my own clothes
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39. Design and build a house, with a huge garden and green house, and pool/spa...
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40. Design and build a water powered car, manufacture and distribute it.
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41. Design and build a flying airship, like a boat but with a huge air balloon. Sail in the seas and in the sky!
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How I did it: With my hands ;P and stuff, read a book about it if you can't do it yourself. ....................................................................................................................................................................................... Read how I did it…
The best way to learn a language is to live it. Put yourself in the culture for a year or so. Language learning doesn’t happen over night, it takes years. I’ve been living in Germany since oct. 24 2006 but I didn’t really start studying the language until august 2007… I had very bad habits that ate up my time, internet surfing and games. With those habits now broken or at least drastically cut down I was able to really focus on my goals. I descided to mark it as complete because people kept telling me my German was good, I can compunicate with people not without a few problems or missing words but communicate none-the-less. So goal complete!
Now I begin learning French! i Will of course continue with my German, it never stops. My end goal is to be completely fluent, which simply takes more time.
I haven’t paid back anything in over 2-or-so years now and I moved to German… seems for good. I plan to pay the money back but when I have money to pay back…

