Hello!!!
Local Guides community…
Want to know my meet up experience of Archit Ojha, hosted by our @TravellerG Sir ?
Don’t Worry, I shall share it with you, here.
Meet up was Inspiring and Excellent.
I joined meet up as Attendee & a member of Collaborator.
I managed a part of the meet up with other Collaborators.
So, I am writing my experience in 2 parts.
At the end of this post, I have also introduced all over view of meet-up recap. (As Attendee and As Collaborator).
So, Let’s Get Started…
As Collaborator:
The meet up was Hosted by Traveller G Sir.
I was in collaborators team which had 8 members.
We have made a target 100 attendees, and we crossed.
For invite more people I made Invitation , means a post on connect without sleeping at the night…
And give them all details of meet up and precautions during meet up.
To Contact many people I also used Social Platforms Like Instagram and WhatsApp.
I was nervous because first time I had managed meet up as collaborator. But I was, highly curios also. And made a very useful invitation…
I didn’t know how I made this Classic invitation, that praised by many Senior LGs also!!
Sometimes it happen.
Aim was to make an instrument to gather more Local guides…
And instrument was my Invitation .!!
My Responsibility (Role) during meet up was…
Writing the notes.
Means, note the details regarding meet up,
Improvement, timings, no of participants and many more.
I also send some important links in comments section that asking by Many LGs during this meet up.
I also helped to switch off the mics of local guides during meet up, when it was unnecessary.
(I think it’s a thing that we should tackle with more care, during any meet up to avoid disturbance).
We jointly did this meet up with proper planning, we also used combination of Collaborators and organized this meet up.
Before the main meet up, which was highly successful, we have done 3 virtual small meet ups with guests and all collaborators. Like practice session.
And it was approx. 2 hours also. So we got things properly and applied on Original Virtual Meet up.
Roles and Responsibilities of Collaborators were decided before 2 days of meet up.
As Attendee:
Yes, I participated in this meet up as Attendee too.!!!
I represented world Heritage city Ahmedabad (City of Gujarat State),India.
And I gave my introduction during meet up.
This is the biggest meet up that I attended so far. And it’s also, became my favorite meet up also.
Now, most amazing part.
Meet up Experience and Overview.
Meet up was organized on 12 April, 2020.
At 6 to 8 PM. By @TravellerG Sir
We had 100 attendees during meet up.
They were represented different locations of earth and different countries.
Like Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Argentina, Japan, Pakistan, USA, Australia and we represented India.
During meet up, the attendees varied between 67 to 85. Most of LGs were present for full time…
The meet up Guest is one of the indians who attended both connect live @ArchitOjha
In this meet up he shared his The Selection Procedure, interview, Different hurdles, different unknown problems, travel journey, Their Experiences and Advice and message for us.
First we all were join meet up, and gave introduction to each other.
After that
Our TravellerG Sir gave the brief introduction of Archit Ojha to everyone.
Then Archit spoke with us and then His presentation was started by himself.
And his ppt was amazing, it contained memories, moments and achievements of him.
He was selected in connect live 2018 & 2019 which is a great achievement!!
He also shared this.
He applied his passport by himself.
He also shared about different routes to fly to reach the U. S. A.
He selected route that passes through China’s Wuhan.
And the selection of 2018 connect live was also mystery !!
Because first he was rejected but due to some visa issues of few selected attendees, he got the chance for connect live 2018!!
And then he also got selected in connect live 2019!!
Thus he represented India in both connect live 2018&2019.
He reached the kolkata for clearing the interview for Visa.
He faced the journey of 37 hours of flying time. Changed the four flights.
And at the USA airport, he waited 8 hours for Entry!!!
He stayed in 5 Star hotels and enjoyed it’s food.
The personal room was given by Google team to him. And also some facilities for 3 days.
During three days he Enjoyed different activities, meet different local guides from all over the world, made new friends and also participate in discussion group wise.
He visited some of the places including Google headquarter…
Enjoyed different type of food and spend funny moments with local guides.
And Last day he gave feedback about adding more items for vegetarian food.
After that he shared about Visa problems and gave advices & how to deal with this.
Also shared his experience on Google Maps as a contributor and LG connect.
And at the end, he solved our queries and gave suggestions.
Want to know his travel journey?
Yes, I made post .Click Here
My question was can you applied connect live 2020?. It’s also mysteries question.
He said No.
And gave thanks to everyone.
After the meet up, we all said bye, one by one & left from the meet up.
The Meet up time went to 3 hours in total !!
His fluency in English and Excellent Speaking talents were noticeable during meet up.
He also continuously spoke for 1:37 hours during meet up.
Yes, it’s really A Wonderful Inspirational Global Virtual Meet up…
Thanks to collaboration Team, TravellerG sir and also attendees, for making this meet up successful and fantabulous.
My Learnings from this meet up.
- What have you received as a “Presentation” from this “inspirational Meet-up”?
Handle situation very carefully and Express myself as much I can.
- What have you learned, to be a better Local Guide tomorrow, and to improve the way to contribute?
The way of communication and fluency of Languages.
And Learn new Languages Also!!!
- What do you think was the most important point in Archit’s long speech?
His connect live Experience. And Visa approval points.
- What do you think was the most touching point in TravellerG’s introduction?
His guidance to collaborators and attendees.
- Why would you suggest to others to attend?
Because it contained Knowledge, important suggestions, real life experience and Solution of questions & queries.
I hope you all Enjoyed my this meet up ‘[Attendee RECAP]’.
And now those who read this 70% chances that he/she attended this meet up…
Thanks to @ErmesT for giving these valuable questions to identify my learnings.
What’s your Experience of this meet up. ?
Share here.
Thanks for Reading…
It will also improve your reading Skill !!!
