South Asian New Year Celebration Virtual Meetup 2020

Many of you may not know the fact that April is the month of the beginning of the calendar year in many countries. April 13- 15, in particular, is the time when countries in South and Southeast Asia celebrate their New Year. As a part of our solidarity,

Bangladesh Local Guides will host a virtual meetup to mark the New Year celebration in these countries.

To know more about this celebration click the link below New Year in April Wiki

Every year Bangladesh Local Guides organize some sort of celebration to mark the day, but due to COVID - 19 pandemic lockdown this year we are unable to do any outdoor event now.

Instead, we chose to arrange a virtual meetup with all the local guides, from the country and other Local Guides from across the borers. more than 70 local guides attend from 18 countries. we share there how we celebrate a new year and the special food we cook during this time and many more.

Meetup Special Guest

Yes! Google Moderator @TraciC join with us our Virtual New year celebration meetup . from Sri Lanka, India several states, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal local guides try to share with her our local calendar and many more.

Everyone happy to see Traci Join with our virtual New year celebration

Counties of Attendee

Bangladesh Brazil Cambodia Cameroon India Pakistan
Nepal Mexico Indonesia Nigeria Israel Jordan
Sri Lanka France Romania Estonia USA Philippine

Share our New Year Celebration Special Dish

From Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, we share our special food item in a hangout to know other country friends how they enjoy there a new year.

Few famous faces in a frame

Some Female Local Guides face in a collage. they share their experience and other things with us

For this meetup special Thanks to @SoniaK for hosting, @Designer_Biswajit dada for banner design and all other attendees make this virtual meetup enjoyable. Lots of my friend but tag limit is 10 That’s why not tag others

Now I am waiting for attendee feedback " How much they enjoy this meetup "

Meet Up Recorded session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGto4-qFiE4

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Hi @MahabubMunna dada bhaia thank you for organized.

There was such a large crowd that we couldn’t connect with many locals. In my opinion, this would be a milestone for the virtual meet up.

we are big surprise special, person @TraciC to join the virtual mert up.

Through Virtual Meet Up, we tried to highlight the Bengali New Year. In the Hilsa and Pantavat, the Bengalis live together.

:bangladesh: :bangladesh:

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Hi @MahabubMunna Bhai, Many thanks to you for organizing a beautiful meet-up on New Year’s and Happy New Year :tada:

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Firstly I would like to congratulate you @MahabubMunna for a grand success of this meet-up !

Really organised well I love the wonderful pictures shared in presentation and everything was well explained by @SoniaK

It was great to meet many new LGs and some of my friends!

It was a big surprise to see @TraciC Everyone was so excite :grin:

I loved the folk song beautifully sung by Team members :bouquet:

I would tag my friends to share thier experience as well :blush:

@Shrut19 @Nyainurjanah @Gurukrishnapriya @Anil6969 @Austinelewex

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Hi @MahabubMunna bhaia, Happy Bengali New Year! :heart::heart:

It was an amazing meetup! I’m just shocked when see the participants crossing 70+

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  • It was great to be a part of this amazing meetup. thanks to the #BDLG team for arranging such a stupendous meetup. Cheers!

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It was a great meetup, I’m lucky that I joined this meetup. All the time I listen to everyone and enjoyed very much. Thank you so much @MahabubMunna Bhai for organizing this amazing meetup. Yesterday you said to wear Panjabi, so I did, here is my photo how I joined this meetup

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One of the awesome virtual meetup :blush: and this is the best way of celebrating the new year with our fellow local guides. Thank you @MahabubMunna @SoniaK & Bangladesh local guides for hosting this Meetup.

I can see my Milk rice (Packman) and sweets there :blush:

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Hai @MahabubMunna .

Great meet ups.

I see some familiar faces there.

Keep calm, stay healthy and always be happy

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One of my best virtual meetups ever, thank you so much @MahabubMunna ! And many thanks to Bangladesh LGs, and all great Local guides who joined, its amazing to see all wonderful local guides from many countries joining together in these tough days,

I want to give special thanks to @SoniaK for being our meetup manager :woman_teacher: :slightly_smiling_face:

@IlankovanT for the yummy sweety food :cookie:

For @TraciC for her good vibes positivity and support :rose:

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Namaskar…

@MahabubMunna

**Thanks for arranging Meetup & shared on this platform, I learn how to manage as host from @SoniaK **

So Thank you Sonia…

My Dear @FalguniP thanks for tagging me here & Sharing link of Meetup so I could join on time…

Indian Senior LG @AmbrishVarshney & @TravellerG @DrShaunak happy to see you there.

**& Happy to see Virtually dear LG friends @IlankovanT @KashifMisidia @OSAMA **

@Nyainurjanah @Austinelewex

& l****ast but not the least with Surprised @TraciC thanks for joining…

16 April we Indian team plan knowledge sharing

Virtual tour Mahharshtra part 1 Meetup, behalf of all Maharashtras Community I Invite you all to Join us…

Thanks in advance…

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OMG was so amazing see everybody there and spent this new year’s with you all!

Today I learned a lot!

Thanks a lot @MahabubMunna and @SoniaK for inviting me and to explain how it works there.

I also wish try all that food hahahaha (specially the fish - Sonia promised it is the best of)

Miss you guys!

Happy new year !!

Best wishes from Brazil and take care,

Sarah.

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What a great Meetup it was, it was a great chance to anyone who wants to meet world’s best local guides at the same time. Really Enjoyed it, and want to say Congratulations for another awesome meetup. And it was nice to see Traci very first time virtually.

My internet connection was so bad, and it was irritating me because I want to participate more in it.

Thank you @SoniaK , @MahabubMunna for inviting me and adding me in your collage.

Shukriya :pray:

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Thanks for the invitation, I really liked to know more about the New Year celebration! but I must say that I was very hungry !!! all that delicious food !!! I also really liked to see that the Local guides are at home taking care of each other, thanks for including me!

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Thank you @MahabubMunna for hosting this wonderful meet-up, it brought back all the nostalgia seeing old friends after some time, we need to do this often!

Thank you @SoniaK for moderating it in such a smooth manner.

@OSAMA it was nice to see you man!

@SovitaD good to know you are in Paris now a days.

@DrShaunak , great seeing you, take care Doctor!

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Thank you @MahabubMunna

Thank you @SoniaK

It’s really wonderful virtual meet with local guides across the globe ,meet some familiar face .

Stay safe everyone happy Bangladesh new year

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Brilliant virtual meet up and thanks for inviting me. Kudos to @MahabubMunna and Bangladesh Local Guides team for arranging this wonderful meet up last night in the midst of COVID -19 outbreak.

We all celebrated Our Bengali New Year yesterday. Fortunately, the Corona outbreak is controlled in my city so far. I had holiday (work - off) yesterday and it’s nice to see some local guides star worldwide. Thanks to the technology and developers of Google Hangout.

And many thanks to @TraciC for joining in as a special guest. :slightly_smiling_face:

We are one WORLD. Fighting Corona virus together. Stay safe everyone!

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@MahabubMunna Wow… congrats for a wonderful meetup… so many old friends and new friends together. And Traci too. :blush:

Didn’t manage to join yesterday. Do more meetups like this. It would be amazing.

And Happy New Year to everyone.

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What a wonderful meetup @MahabubMunna

I can clearly see myself at the first collage. :blush: :blush:

@FalguniP I am pretty sure you enjoyed yourself. I enjoyed myself as well.

I didn’t get the opportunity I wanted to reintroduce myself again when my dear Friend @MukulR requested me to through the chat section. He tried and answered must of my numerous questions there.

I saw my friends @Designer_Biswajit , @AbdusSattar who I to greeted and wish happy New Year to you but I guess they didn’t see it on the chat section.

I was pretty surprised when @TraciC showed up, it was my first time seeing her though virtually. :joy: :rofl:

I saw my friend @Nyainurjanah and @SabbirShawon .

@FalguniP , I and @MukulR discuss extensively on the chat section. This is one of my best meetup right now actually.

If I wasn’t an Early Bird :smile_cat: , I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to introduce myself before the meetup became so rowdy.

P.S. Please you Local Guides should stop thinking that I am @Mayford , I didn’t attend connect live 19. :rofl: :joy: :rofl: :grin:

Best regards

Remain Safe

Gracias

Austin.

@Nyainurjanah

@Ddimitra Mbak Devi. :grin:

@TraciC

@Austinelewex

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Thanks @MahabubMunna it was an awesome meetup. I was joined but unfortunately I dropout from meetup because lack of internet issues. Btw thanks for share your experience.

Thanks, @Austinelewex @Nyainurjanah @FalguniP and others for join. I hope you all enjoyed that meetup.

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