Dear Local Guides fellows and Googlers.
I want to share with you my amazing story which lead to the Connect Live 2019 event.
As you know, every Local Guide on certain level have a opportunity to send application and try be one of the attendees on biggest official international event for most passionate Local Guide members.
I was sending my applications for 3 years and I was never been selected as an attendes until now. This year was different. I received email with negative response like many of us and I dealt with it.
Anyway, something unbelievable happened to me and I got email “You’re in!” from Google on mid of September.
I couldn’t believed it at all and I was thought that this must be some kind of error, maybe in Matrix 
. So, I ignored this email for a few days. After some time I started believe that it can be actually a true and I spread this information with my Czech Local Guides community. I was enormous happy.
I had never been on the plane before and I even didn’t know what to do before my longest - 13+ hours on the go and over 10 000 kilometres, trip of my life.
I had just a couple of days to obtain my passport, ESTA and choose my flight ticket.
Great thing about this event is that you can flight prior to the official event and so I did. I came to USA 10 days prior with my girlfriend and together we were visited some cool places in California - PIER39, Alcatraz, the Golden Bridge, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Mount Diablo or Yosemite national park.
But straight to the Connect Live 2019 event. This event changed my perception about this program. I knew that this community is amazing, but I did not have a clue how much. All people was so nice, friendly and polite. I felt like in a dream, but it wasn’t dream, this was a reality.
This event was a huge and I think (my opinion) it may have a big impact to all active Local Guide members around the world, because we could tell our problems and/or ideas directly to Googlers and they care.
This event was amazing - I made a new friendship, I learned something new, I tasted some interesting sweets from other countries, got life experiences and last but not least I have a lots of good memories.
At the end I want to thank you to all Googlers who been there and listened us, next very big thanks goes to LG team in Google, mainly to @TraciC and also to @brittym and to all 199 other Local Guides which created fantastic vibes during four days.
Thank you for that opportunity be one of the 200 attenders!
