Introduce Yourself — February 2023

Hi everyone! Welcome to Local Guides Connect. Please take a moment to introduce yourself to our community.

As “Introduce Yourself” threads can be lengthy, we start a new one each month and lock past threads. You can check previous threads, like January’s, to see who recently joined and where they’re from. We’ll merge any “I’m new” and “Hello world” posts we find elsewhere with this thread to keep things organized.

Do you want to be featured in our monthly Introduce Yourself posts**?** Share your introduction in the comments, following the five prompts below, and a horizontal photo of yourself (in landscape mode). We will select one of the best introductions and include it in our next month’s post. Please note: Your response may be edited for clarity. By taking part in this challenge, you agree to allow us to share your answers and photo(s) publicly here on Connect.

This month, meet @andreileal ! Andrei is a Local Guide Level 8, and here’s what they shared.

1. Name: Andrei Bentes Leal

2. Location: Santarém, PA, Brazil

3. What I love about being a Local Guide: I love being a Local Guide simply because I help other people with accurate information and the exact location of places they might want to visit! Not to mention that it’s fun to explore places and share our opinion; I love doing this so much!

4. My favorite thing to explore: I love editing the places I visit that, for some reason, have incomplete or even wrong information. Of these places, my favorite to explore are environments like public squares and parks.

5. Fun fact about me: I love being spontaneous with my friends. I really like going out, I read a lot, and I love strawberry milkshakes. I am an economics graduate and study psychology as a hobby.

Nice to meet you, Andrei! Local Guides, don’t miss the chance to say hi to Andrei in the comments below and to share your introduction, too.

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Thank you @InaS .

I’m Nasim M Joy. I’m a Bangladeshi local Gudie.

Best Wishes for new local guide

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Hello @andreileal

It’s nice to know more about you and your favourite hobbies.

Thank you for introducing and share information about Andrei @InaS

My name is Abdullah Mamun from Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

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It’s great to meet you @andreileal

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Assalamualaikum .

Hy Everyone .

I’m Ifa , anyone help me to Join Makassar Local Guide Community ? I wanna Learn and know more about Local Guide , especially for Makassar City .

Thanks For Your attention Guides .

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Hi @andreileal , we are grateful to meet someone like you who is ambitious to share his opinions, explore places and help a community with accurate information. Enjoy Google Connect.

Name: Diplomat_Peter

Location: Kempton Park, South Africa, Johannesburg

What I love Being a Local Guide: Firstly, I am grateful to Google Maps Team for an awesome opportunity to serve through this platform. I love to add value to our world as inspired by @John C. Maxwell when he said “Success is when I add value to myself. Significance is when I add value to others.”

My favorite Thing To Explore: Photos from fellow Local Guides that captures the part of this planet that I haven’t visited, photos that inspires my creativity and catapult me into doing more for my community. Also reviews that caution me about a place, food and/or service of a place I wish to visit.

Fun Fact About Me: My ambition is to ‘learn, grow and serve’ with my gifts. I am open for corrections just like the one I received from @Gezendunyali when he suggested that I add “features that distinguish it from other foods.” I like reading especially my No. 1 book, the Bible and leadership books

Caption: Diplomat_Peter is second from right. With classmates graduating at University of Johannesburg https://www.uj.ac.za/ South Africa for Higher Certificate in Community Leadership and Development

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It’s great to meet you @andreileal . With over 26,000 edits under my belt, like you, I also love editing places as I find it very satisfying knowing that people researching and thinking about visiting the places that I edit will be making better informed decisions on more complete and accurate information.

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Congratulations on being featured this month @andreileal

It is a delight to meet you especially since we share common interests like public parks and strawberry milkshakes - these are grown in abundance locally in farms where we go out and pick the fresh ones by hand :strawberry:

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Hello @andreileal congratulations bro for being the part of this board.

Thanks @InaS for introducing him.

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Hi @princessi ,

very welcome back on Connect, the official Local Guides community forum, here you can find Local Guides from all around the world. I want also to let you know that I merged your post to our monthly topic Introduce Yourself February 2023 in order to keep Connect organized.

Since you are new here please have a read at Your guide to Connect to make yourself comfortable and understand how to best use Connect. Moreover you can search in Connect by using specific language keywords or searching for Local Guides in specific areas based on what they posted on Connect.

Another way to get in contact with Local Guides of your area is to search for meetups nearby you or even organize one yourself and get some local participation.

If you need any help you can always refer to our Help Desk.

Thank you and Happy Guiding!

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Nama saya Nasihin, Asal Indonesia Sumatera Selatan.

Terima kasih sudah memberi kesempatan untuk bergabung di sini.

Salam Santun.

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Mana Suaranya, Local Guide Indonesia, Terutama Bagian Sumatera.

Saya ingin berbagi sedikit cerita dengan healing yang pertama kali mendaki gunung, Sangat melelahkan, tapi sangat seru view nya sangat mantap dan luar biasa.

Dr. Nasihin

gunung seminung

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Hello @Nasihin16692 , welcome to the forum. I see that you are new to the forum. Please introduce yourself to us using the link below.

Introduce-Yourself-February-2023

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Hallo

Gezendunyali

@InaS

Saya Nasihin

Terimakasih karena saya sudah di perbolehkan gabung di sini, saya sebagai local guide daerah sangat puas, dan tak lupa saya minta bimbinganya supaya menjadi local guide terbaik.

Salam santun

Nasihin

Gunung Siminung

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Salam kenal kakak, saya dari Pekanbaru Indonesia juga :grin: :innocent:

Ayah saya berasal dari Batu Raja, OKU

Musreza

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Hi @Nasihin16692

Nice to have you here.

I have merged your post with the monthly introduction post for February.

Regards

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Iya teriakasih atas sambutan hangatnya Salam Kenal Juga saya dari Tugumulyo OKI kk.

Dan saya tau Batu Raja Oku @muzreza

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Hai @Sagir terimakasih salam santun karna sudah menyambutku dengan hangat, terimakasih.

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I started as a maps user who wanted to travel and see all over the world and upload comments, photos and videos to new places and places to love, and this is why I liked me more because new people know and like my comments and photos, and I want to benefit many more people.

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