The Google Local Guide is the most impact things in my life, cause give me some significant changes. I will tell you how I discovered this cool program and really loved for the first I tried to contribute.
It was approximately 2 years ago, when I was looked my brother wrote reviews of restaurant, he really love it and share cool photos. I think maybe that for his social media, but after I asked, He said this is for Google. What ?? Google ?? I means why we have share those to the Google. He said, for google maps to complete some information and share photos of the places. Moreover, can help everyone who need some information of the places and to support them for visited to that place or not.
WOW! I think that’s so Amazing, share our photos that I’ve take a picture, and share our EXPERIENCE’s to wrote reviews for help people to give some information. That’s I means EXPERIENCE. Since that I decide to become local guide. My journeys to get amazing EXPERIENCE’s, are agoing alone to my favourite restaurants, cafe’s, or cheapest and ethnic hotels. Because I’ve never doing before like that activities. Especially, for taking photos. At the past, my photos that I’ve take a picture it’s SUCKS. But, now because I have going that different places and learning by doing, little by little my photos are better than before. Once again, now I dare to take a “selfie photo’s” in that area I’ve visited to reviews. It can be, because I know the best angle’s for take a selfie that supported with kind of scenery from place I will review.
Yeah I think that are blessing and impact from my journeys who decide to become Great Local Guide. That’s the EXPERIENCE.
Next, because my Experience that I have since become Google Local Guide, I can “BREAK MY LIMIT”. Why? Because I become person who considerate to the surrounding environment, and feels happy to contribute share information of interesting places. Because in the past, I always keep all informations for myself and won’t to share for others. But, now because I am Local guide I can “BREAK” that bad attitude as “MY LIMIT”.
Moreover, because I am stay focus in the line to become “Great” local guide, I didn’t expected, now I become Level 7 of Google Local Guide, even approx 2 years since I started this activities.
Last but not least, because the local guides I can make “strong” & “meaningfull” FRIENSHIPS. Not only with Indonesian people’s but with across country people’s. Yeah, even I am Indonesian, but my job is always related to connect with across the country, especially Japanese people. Because I can speak Japanese too, I can share my experience and photos that I was I’ve visited and reviews on the google local guide easily to them. For the example, one day, my Japanese friend asked for located a “Traditional Padang foods restaurant in Surabaya City”. My friend is my colleagues in my past company and have good position on there. Because I know that is the most Japanese who strict in taste, so I search that restaurant and I find it fast, because use google maps and see some reviews for other google local guide. Then, we decided to going that restaurant, and his so happy for my recommendation. He said because since he lived in Surabaya until 4 years, he is waiting going to restaurant that have a delicious taste of the Traditional Padang foods. When I heard that words I feel touched, because can help him for eat the famous delicious Padang Foods in Surabaya. Before leaving the restaurant he requested to me to take a picture of him with scenary of restaurant. He said that is for our memory, and will share to his family in Japan and his friends in Japanese Community Surabaya. Then, he took a picture of me, on front of the restaurant, and he said, this for your memories because you have help old man like me to taste delicious foods in Surabaya, it is like dreams come true. That’s was touched my heart again.
Oh Yeah, I am going to that restaurant because after read reviews in google local guide and see google maps to take fastest route to reach it.
So, Finally, What local guides means to me ? the answer are “EXPERIENCE, BREAK MY LIMIT, and FRIENSHIPS”, but if I can make the summary is “EVERITHING”. Because with local guide I become happier and useful person than before.
Hopefully, I can meet the Local Guide people around the world and sharing each other.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GOOGLE LOCAL GUIDE.