What does the Local Guides program mean to me

When I was a child, I wanted to have a magic wand that would help me to do good deeds and make people happy. I imagined that with just the wave of this wand I could fulfill the desires of people around the world, give them happiness and make the world a better place. I was 3 or 4 years old, I knew that life is not a fairy tale and that magic happens only in books and cartoons, but I believed that by the time I get older, I really will have the opportunity to fulfill these dreams.


Now I’m 27. I’m not a sorceress, I’m an ordinary teacher. I don’t have a magic wand, but I have the Internet and I can do a lot of good deeds which I consider real miracles with a help of it.

I travel a lot around the country with my students. My country is rich with beautiful places, popular among travelers from all over the world. I take photos and write reviews about the places that we visited and thanks to this I can feel myself a part of a large humaniTEAM. I think we can assume that I successfully fulfill the dreams of a little girl whom I was 20 years ago. Just imagine! People from all over the world share their thoughts, feelings, emotions, and pictures with other people, allowing somebody on the other side of the country or even on the other side of the planet to see this place with their own eyes. Isn’t it magic?

When I started doing this, I shared my photos and reviews simply because I could. I had hidden intentions about my actions. I had photographs and emotions, from which I formed a random act of kindness published on google maps and allowed other people to see the part of the planet through the prism of my inner world.

Today, I have tears in my eyes at the mere thought that I have a chance to attend a live event where I can see the creators of this program and hundreds of wizards from different parts of the planet, who also perform their own simple acts of kindness, opening the world to others without a magic wand, using only the Internet and a mobile phone for this.

I wish love and light to all participants of the program and look forward to meeting you. I think that in these strange times, when all countries are united to fight a common enemy - the virus, a little of our magic is exactly what the world needs! :earth_africa: :sparkling_heart: