Pray for the WORLD Great Oaks/ Diamond Oaks!

  I wake up always wondering, thinking, hoping, praying, and achieving greater success. Sometimes I get away from certain things just to clear my head. I look around and ask myself, "Lord is this the place that you blessed me in?" A place full of sin and unforgiveness? A place full of lies and absolute horror, murder, and turmoil.

  But yet a place full of temporary peace, love, and sweet words. A place where every song in the world has a story behind it. A place where imperfection exists? With all that I am saying, with all the tears I shed on the inside, with the unforgiving past that keeps coming back to haunt me, for being looked at by so many as a "weird individual", for never having a girl friend for so long because I don't understand them at all but yet they love to stereotype me first and hurt me to the point where I just say, I GIVE UP! I rather focus on my goals instead!

No matter how much I like girls, It will be hard for me to consider a relationship because I of the words that some have said to me in my past. In other words, everyone has skeletons in their closet, everyone has some horrible moment in their past, and the only thing I can do is say Thank you to all for the pain, love, truth, and lies that have taught me to only be a better individual each day. I understand that this post may not make sense at all but just pray for me. Thats all I ask. I love Diamond Oaks and I love to learn. But just because I'm always nice, love to learn, and that I am a very respectable young man, does not mean that I don't cry, get angry, suffer on the inside, deal with confrontations with my own family, and etc.

  I'm human too. I shed blood just like everybody else. I am a black male just trying to become the next success. Is that so wrong? Well, I will continue to pray for everyone in the world and just continue to keep the faith! God bless Diamond Oaks and again, THANK YOU ALL for the accademic and everyday lessons in life!

THANK YOU ALL FOR A FANTASTIC TWO YEAR EXPERIENCE AT DIAMOND OAKS!!!

I would also  like to discuss some of my favorite memories here at Diamond Oaks.  It’s a long list so get ready folks. I would have to say that I would like to thank everyone for the wonderful memories here at Diamond Oaks.  I would like to say that my favorite memories would have to be, meeting most of my friends/ new friends at Diamond Oaks, Learning how to improve my art in Digital Arts and Design, learning how not to distort my art, learning about the many Adobe Programs, watching almost every clip from the basics of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and etc. from Adobe TV.com and Atomic Learning.com, working on homework which always kept me busy, working on my senior research project, learning about different behaviors and etc. from everyone, learning to accept most things in life and know that “nothing is new under the sun”, forcing myself to try new things, showcasing my music video in my Junior Year, Painting/ drawing a future MTV stars along with others in Digital Arts and Design, drawing my friends, working on pictures for my future anime business, producing my first flyer for my mother with my design (proved to be successful), and overall, my ups,downs, success, and failures have all inspired me more to just learn about what all life has to offer, know about some of the injustice in the world, and to continue to fulfill my goals no matter what happens! Thank you all!

Thank you Ms. Ramey.

 My experience in Digital Arts and Design was an interesting and fascinating one. I would have to say that most of my uncertainties and mistakes came from me. I lost so much faith in my art that I look towards others to see if my art was acceptable and professional. My mother, my God brothers and sisters, the DAAP teachers, Mrs. Brogden, Ms. Mullvey, Mrs. Freeman, and many others say that my art is very interesting and that they love it. All I ever wanted, was my own form of art.

  I accepted what the Digital Arts and Design team has said about my art. I even accepted some laughs and snickers from it. I even accepted the fact that I need to take multiple art classes in order to improve upon my art.  For those two years I have been in that class, I have been broken, repaired, broken, repaired, broken, and repaired again. I was constantly fighting myself everyday to improve myself.

  I even worked on 100-150 sketches of cartoons and real life images in order to improve my art. All the art that has been rejected, I will use to my advantage, I will make sure that I will build some foundation where everybody’s art can be accepted… no matter what it is. So I thank you Ms. Ramey for teaching me that. For teaching me that nobody will believe in my  own art style,  BUT ME! 

I detest being missing days at Diamond Oaks!

  Good Morning everyone one at Diamond Oaks. This has not been a glorious week for me at Diamond Oaks. I means Jesus Christ, the worst part about school, is  being too sick too even go to school. If I go to school sick, I’m not in the best of mood and I just have a fake smile towards everyone that I’m in perfect condition when in all reality, I’m suffering on the inside. Since I was a kindergartener, I ALWAYS wanted perfect attendance, I  always wanted  to work really hard to be a perfect A+ student, and most importantly, keep myself in physical shape and keep myself healthy so I can never become sick. Boy, were my goals too high and not that hard to accomplish at times. Missing school is a NIGHTMARE!


 When you come back, you have tons of work to make up; you have unexcused absences, and NO PERFECT ATTENDANCE?? It is so inefficient. For the past three days, I miss being at Diamond Oaks. But noooooo. Instead, I have this illness that I have  been suffering  with since birth that has always caused me to never ever in my life have perfect attendance.

 Why is it, I can have excellent grades bur NEVER perfect attendance?  Oh well. God please heal me and I really need everyone’s prayers. I am in the worst condition, my chest is getting really tight, my voice is really deep and hoarse, and I am just a huge sick mess trying to get ahead of the class but still behind in two classes. Well God bless and I will see you all Thursday! The illness that I am speaking of is called “BRONCHTIS”! Yeah, it’s horrible! Well time to rest, study, and taking a breathing test! Have a nice day everyone!

Thank You to all my Senior Year Teachers at Diamond Oaks!

 Now during my junior year, I was very happy because for the first time ever in my life ( I thank all my teachers from Pre K – now) I finally have male role model teachers in my life. Now in my senior year, the pattern continued to me only having female teachers. But these female teachers have changed my life too! Mrs. Broening taught me, not to be so hard on myself and to look at math as a way of how to figure life out so I won’t spend my money so carelessly!  Statistics is a very interesting subject and I will definitely take into consideration that if one pack of chips has 32 chips and the other bag only has 26, that it is ok, due to a  factory manufacturing error.

  Mrs. Brogden has really touched my art and opened my ideas up when writing my future anime. She has not only taught me a lot about language arts, what a narrative is, and how to correctly write a Senior Research paper on my topic of 3D/2D/ Sketched art  in Video game design, she has taught me, that it is ok to add some type of humor in your anime and what not. Mrs. Freeman has taught me that life can be looked at in different perspectives and that we are all forever learning and guessing at life, even when it comes to voting for certain rights.  I am truly honored to be in their class and all I do is learn more and more from them. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH is all I can say! J

Thank you all my Junior Year Teachers at Diamond Oaks!

 Wow!  So many new friends. I don’t believe I can only do a maximum of just ten posts, because so much has happened here at Diamond Oaks.  I would like to go back to discussing how I made so many friends but first, I would like to talk about my teachers in my Junior Year!  My Social Studies teacher Mr. Stiger has really inspired me to pay close attention to our government and to make sure that we elect officials that are helping this country grow and not perish into nothingness.

   Mr. Lind has showed me that Math is very essential in life even when making video games. As frustrating and challenging Cognutive tutor was, it has really improved my math skills indefinitely! Mr. Cederdaul ( now my Anatomy teacher this year) has showed me that science is everywhere and has inspired me to go out there and learn more about life and its many possibilities! Mr. Malof has taught me to have faith in my own style of how to create movies, plays, and etc. while at the same time, following the basic rules and guide lines to fulfill my dreams. He has even helped me with a little flash animation by making sure that the animation is balanced and now all over the place so that it flows with the story and makes sense to the viewers and audience.

  I would like to THANK THEM ALL! If I were to go any further on how they changed my life, I would have to write a book! These teachers are truly amazing!!!! J

A Clone of me at Diamond Oaks?

 Michael Hall was a very educated buddy of mine and somewhat, an alternate futuristic version of myself. Let me further explain. We are both over achievers. We love to learn about new things. Even through tough times in class, we find a way to help each other out in Digital Arts and Design.

 He loves video games just like I do. Michael Hall has even taught me some basics of how video games are even made. The process he taught me was that each video game takes a year or so to make because there are so many individual teams that work with the graphics, frame animation, scripting, coding, 3D modeling, 2D modeling, rendering, shading, concept art, and many more jobs and tasks. I was so fascinated by the whole topic. Michael Hall has introduced me to lot of bands to listen to including Linkin Park.

 He has even showed me different comic book styles of art and the many possibilities to make a comic.  I was so inspired that I decided to take the offer of taking an art class that Ms. Ramey introduced to the whole class.  The teachers there at the DAAP program at the University of Cincinnati accepted my style of art and stated that it was “unique!” Nobody has ever said that my art was “Unique”!  I almost started to cry and had more faith in my art than I ever had before. I mean every has either looked at my art in a deranged way but to say Unique, really healed me!