This week was the start of SMS applications. We had our lecture today on interfaces, and a gentle introduction to callbacks, and its relevance to sms applications, j2me, and android. I was having some trouble understanding SMS myself, and was unable to help out some of the students today during lab. I did not enjoy that feeling, the feeling of not having the knowledge within me to help others nor myself. As soon as we came home, I started looking through the lab more thorougly, and had Michael explain to me again how callbacks worked and the overall process of how SMS applications worked. I thought I met my match today, and was ready to throw in the towel, but that's not who I am -> that's not the AITI way. So get ready, cause I'm ready to take on the upcoming challenges that come my way!

on the bright side of things....I started working on the slides for our lecture on SQL and JAVA DB. it's amazing how you can learn so much from making lecture slides, trying to think of ways to teach the material so that your students can understand it without much confusion. hopefully when it's all done i can post a link to it for others to check out the lecture.

this is week is going to be tough, and i can't imagine how the weekend is going to be like. i'm learning a lot, so that's good. though from time to time i get moments where i miss people. i'm a strange person now that i think about it. oh well, i'm glad i met the students here. i got to eat lunch with edwin and rose, chatted with them about life in kenya, education, a little governement stuff. edwin made fun of me when he found out i was from hawaii, and the fact that i couldn't surf. he said i had no balance, which is probably true.

tomorrow there will be a lecture on exceptions, and then in the afternoon another lecture on SMS, probably go a little more in depth. i started the lab for SMS...still need a work out a few kinks, but for the most part I understand the overall foundation. can't wait to see what's in store for tomorrow!