Sometimes events guide our choices, about what to do tomorrow, and even what to write today.
Today my thoughts, and my fingers, decided for me it was time to talk about friendship, and how friendship crosses borders.
Connect, is the name of this community, Local Guides Connect. Never could a name be more appropriate. A space where Local Guides could “Connect” with each other, share their experiences, tell about the country they live in, their travels, their food. A place to learn and teach, a place to share one’s knowledge with others. A place where language, culture, religion are not barriers but, on the contrary, are stimuli for learning.
How many of us, after joining the Community, have become friends even though they live in different countries, and have never met?
How many of us, after reaching the Community, have discovered foods they had never tried, and of which they are now greedy?
How many of us, after reaching the Community, have discovered places that we have added to our wish list, or that maybe, after reading them here, we have also visited?
How many of us, after reaching the Community, were able to learn that many clichés relating to places we did not know (or even that we thought we knew) were actually wrong?
I raise my hand first, to say me. It sure happened to me about all the questions.
I can add that I have been even more fortunate, as I have been able to meet many of these Local Guides in person. Local Guides from more than 50 different countries. Local Guides From six different Continents.
Sure, you say, this is easy if you have participated in three Official Google Events. I agree, it’s easy this way.
It is less easy when you have to travel for hundreds or thousands of miles. Yet it has happened, and I am sure it will happen again.
- Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Belgium, Italy, Mexico were the countries of origin of the Local Guides who met in Poland in 2018: [Recap] European Meet Up 2018/ Poland
- Uk, Germany, Ukraine, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Malaysia, Finland joined in 2019 in Belgium: [RECAP] 2nd European Meetup (Ghent, Belgium, 07-10/06/2019)
- Spain, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Ukraine, India, Italy, Nepal are the countries from which the Local Guides moved to meet us in Treviso or Venice (and once also in Paris): Treviso - The town where the Local Guides meet
I can’t tag everyone here, that would be way too many. But I know for a fact that sometimes it has happened to you too, and that in your meet-ups there are people who connect from other countries of the world. Or they are events that you organize together. Or simply Local Guides with whom you have become friends in Connect, in posts, and with whom you have a private chat. With some Local Guides from countries other than mine I chat EVERY DAY, can you believe it?
Let’s send a Message of Friendship to the world.
- What are the Local Guides from other countries (or even from cities other than your own) that you became friends with after getting to know each other here in Connect?
- Have you ever met in person?
- How do you collaborate with each other?
If you want to tell it, reply to this post. Or write a post on this subject, starting the title with Friendship Without Borders.
Remember to @ tag me in the post, and use the #FriendshipWithoutBorders hashtag
All your posts will be linked on the next page
