YESSSS!!!
IF YOU ARE/WERE/WILL EVER BE AN ENGINEERING STUDENT , YOU CAN DEFINITELY RELATE
If your are an Indian and in your teens just about to start with your college days to get that degree up on your bio… your parents would have definitely suggested you ( forced at times 
) to take up engineering . you gotta agree with me on this …
AND FOR THOSE WHO DON’T!!
trust me i belong from a typical Indian family too, i know the insides.
Yes indeed its a wonderful experience in life , this four years teaches us so much more then those text book ever did , back in school days.
BUT ONE THING THAT YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH MORE PROMINENTLY, EVEN MORE THEN YOUR CHOSEN ENGINEERING FIELD …
THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH CHEESY THAT PIZZA IN YOUR NEAREST PIZZERIA IS " MAA KE HAAT KE DAAL ROTI " (HOME MADE DAAL AND FLAT BREAD) IS BLISS AND CAN NOT BE COMPARED WITH ANYTHING ELSE NO MATTER WHAT"
and this is HOW , WHY it started my GOOGLE LOCAL GUIDE JOURNEY
It all stated from sending mom pictures of breakfast ,lunch and dinner ,
giving her all the details about what i was eating and where .
by one point of time , My mother knew about all the surrounding eateries near my hostel ,
with mothers constant taunts of healthy lunch and dinner and my old hobby of photography , in these past 2 years i have grown!! a lot!!
yes from level 1 with 1 point to level 8 with over 16k points , i have grown and goggle kept appreciating me for all my hard work
from finding those restaurants of unlimited veg thali for just 50 rs and that paneer chilly dry at 80 bucks, to those fancy cafes and bars in the city of PUNE… my engineering days went by…
from those places with the cheapest french fries and dip to those tasty cold coffee , the journey continued …
but hang on…
it dint just end right there, it helped me grow back my interest for an old hobby of photography
and now i had stated sharing pictures of almost everything i found around me , from those scenic beauties of the EASTERN seven sister state of ASSAMS KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK , to the magnificent GATE WAY OF INDIA ,MUMBAI in EAST.…from those scary endless oceans of ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS in the SOUTH to those might HIMALAYAS in the NORTH…
Those journeys kept adding a tick in my bucket list and added pictures and memories of the places i went thought on my way …
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ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS ( SOUTH ) :
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KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK ( EAST ):
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THAR DESERT RAJHASTHAN ( WEST ) :
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GREAT HIMALAYAS ( NORTH ) :
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No matter were I was travelling , those smalls pan shops , those hospitals , hotels, grocery shops … i was posting and reviewing everything,
trust me seeing those number climb up of the views on a particular picture and videos to the climbing rate of people who had read my reviews , it gave me butterflies in my tummy , that sense of satisfactions of being helpful to someone and showing them a way out when needed just felt so relaxing .
And in all this what helped me was… GOOGLES LOCAL GUIDE PLATFORM
It showed me the actual meaning of being a GLOBAL CITIZEN,
in no time i was actually outsourcing to the world ,being in touch with millions and reaching them with the help of pictures from my community and reviews of places of interest
INDIA being such a huge country with such a diverse culture, heritage and history , surprised me too .
it showed me places of common interest which i never knew before
from finding those ATMs at late night in emergency too reaching the nearest petrol pump ,google maps has been very helpful in my case to
I really wonder who those people in the ancient times survived and found their way out back then.
And all thought this intense journey of hardship , google has always kept appreciating my hard work with local perks , additional cloud space in google drive , offers rewards badges and so much more , making this process even more interesting and amazing .
GOOGLES LOCAL GUIDE HAS GIVEN SO MANY PEOPLE A CHANCE OF SHOWCASING THEIR SURROUNDING TO THE WORLD AND HELPED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
THANK YOU SOOO VERY MUCH GOOGLE FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE
ALREADY LOOKING FORWARD TO ACHIEVING THE LEVEL 9 ON LOCAL GUIDE AND CONTRIBUTING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE IN MAKING THIS WORLD A BETTER AND EASIER PLACE TO MANEUVER IN MORE ECO-FRIENDLY WAY