Surprise

Finally the day came, I left my office and reached home as soon as I could. I turned on my computer and opened the Hangouts link and stared at it for a long time. The chat was supposed to start at 9.00 PM IST, but no one connected to the link except me. At 9.30 PM, I had a knock on my door and to my surprise it was Akash Shukla & John Souchak with a few camera guys. Video chat was the height of my imagination, I could never imagine John Souchak (the guy who started the certifications program), coming to my house and talking to me. John told me about how this is his first time in India and he visited alumni in other cities before coming to Mumbai. They told me that they planned on making a video on my journey and would publish it on Google Developers India’s YouTube channel. I mean, I have subscribed to that channel and seen others’ stories and here I was being told that my story would be published as well. They asked me about my journey and how I got into Android Development, I was super nervous as I had never been in front of a camera and as a result I fumbled a bit and messed up here and there but there were no retakes for me to fix things. ☹️

After that, they gave me another surprise probably the biggest one I have ever received in my entire life.