I'm involved in a lot of activites mostly because I enjoy helping out and being involved with others. - JSA (Junior Statement of America)-discuss and talk about events happening today.
- Read for the Future-go tutor children at elemntary schools.
- SRLA (Students Run Los Angeles)-get trained to run the LA Marathon.
- LATIN CLUB!!! -Compete in the Academics and Athletics of Roman lifes with other schools.
- CSF (California Scholarship Federation)- can apply for a scholarship
- Med-COR Program-help us soar and rise and do the best we can possibly do.
DING, DING, DING, We have a winner!!!! Gogol and Moushumi end up having chemistry allright. Within the next that passes they have lunch together at an Italian restuarunt that is near by Gogol's work seeing as how he has an important meeting to attend after lunch. Here they talk some more and enjoy eachother's company, talking of work, and what he's working on. Before they know time flew by and it's time to leave the place. Before they leve the wiater asks if they're brother and sister, Gogol gets offended at first, but Moushumi just laughs thinking of the fact that after all these years someone really buys the idea that they are family.They end up leaving the restuarnt and leave outside and it is very chilly and Moushumi offers to buy him a hat at this one store that is near by. They go into the store and look for hats and they finally find one that suits him. When it's time to pay for the hat Moushumi pays for it not allowing Gogol stating that it was her idea in the first place. At the register she finds a one of a kind hat and it looks good on her, but can't afford it. She ends up buying Gogol's hat and they walk back to his office. At the end of the day he returns to the store and buys her the hat a birthday present. The next weekend he goes to her house and they end up making love and their relationship began just like that. They begin to live in eachother's apartment's and talk about how much and little they know eachother. So far this relation seems to be on the right tracks.Question: How do you know when you have found the one?
With the death of a fellow loved one Lahiri takes on the funeral journey this Bengali family takes, for 11 days they eat no meat and eat a plain meal that only makes sense for them to eat for in a way it fills up the empty space of their dad not being there. One month after this tragedy Gogol has to go back to work, but his sister Sonia stays to help out her mom. In the midst of all of this Gogol breaks up with Maxine, because Gogol is still depressed about his dad and Max just wants him to move as if nothing has happened and he can't do that. Now a year later Gogol visits his mother often mostly to see the picture of his father all by himself in the hallway that they have. They eventually go to Calcultta during the summer to scatter his father's ashes and the Ganges. Time passes and Gogol returns to school to get his registration exam to offcially be an architect and have his name on things he creates .With his father being gone and he now in his late 20s his mother starts to worry about him and wants him to get settled. So his mom brings up one of the Indian girls that he has known for the longest time ever her name is Moushumi Mazomdar and is currently enrolled at NYU, getting her Ph.D and is a french literate. So Ashima gives the phone number to Gogol and keeps pestering him so that he can call her to go out. He eventually does and they end up going on thier "blind date". They meet kind of awkward at first becasue although they were "related" they never really spent much time together, so they caught up in their lives, asked one another what they were up to and mostly talked about their past. To Gogol it seems to him that there might be chemistry in the air.Question: Do you believe in love at first sight? Has it happened to you already? Or have you've ever been attracted or felt something for someone just by seeing them for the first time?
Summer has come once again for Gogol and this time he decides to spend two weeks with his girlfriend Maxine by the beach and spend his birthday there as well. Though before they leave to this all magnificent get away Gogol is asked to see his father off at the airport for he is on his way to leave for Cleaveland for almost a year and leaves the same day that he plans to leave for the beach. So more dutifully than willingly he goes to see his father for a while and off he goes on his adventure with his girlfriend Maxine. Little does he know that this would be the very last time he would ever see, hear, smell, or speak to his father. For later on that year his father perishes in Cleaveland. One day during the winter while still at Cleaveland Ashoke calls Ashima telling her that he's in the hospital because his stomache has been hurting, but he tells her not to worry because he believes it's just something that he ate, and then tells her that he'll call back later. Well the call never came and time has passed and Ashima decides to call the hospital sadly there they tell her that her husband is no longer with them but in another life for he had a suffered a heart attack in which nothing could have been done to save his life.
So after being in shock and crying she calls her children, Sonia right away form San Francisco leaves to where her mom is and Gogol leaves directly from LaGuardia to Cleavand to do all the necessary processes for his dad. He goes to the hospital and sees his dead dad on the bed to confirm that, that is his father, and makes all the necessary arrangements needed for him to be cremated and whatever else was needed.
Then he made his way to his father's rented car and drove to his apartment.
Question: Have you've ever lost anyone you knew? Do you regret not having been with them one last time if it was at one point possible?
