Introduce Yourself — April 2018

[Badruddeen]

Thank you brother @XanderO for helping @Mutahi

Cheers

[PoppyMustard]

Name: Roman

Location: constantly moving .... mostly can be caught in Leiden, Netherlands / Birmingham, UK / Bratislava, Slovakia

What I love about Local Guides: well I am a huge fan of volunteering and crowd-sourcing. I am an active volunteer (mostly in education and environment preservation) and I treat local guides as a volunteer crowd-sourcing community that shares data that make the lives of tourists, visitors and explorers like me easier. I believe it is a win-win situation for all.

What I like to explore: I don't like tourist traps and I am more about experiences than locations. I don't take a lot of photos as I like to live the moment rather than having a digital copy of it.

Factoids: Extremely competitive and I love to explore new sports. Love to play badminton and squash and I am a licensed FUTSAL coach. I lecture at Universities on different Economics topics and I relax through crafts like crocheting (very manly!) 

[cristipache]

Hello and welcome!

@cherarbru @anandcd123 @prafful_vh @NATANICO @alex347 

BTW Natanico Pampona is a great city! I will go there this summer.

Cheers!

[Amjad-Jamal]

@sbashbanmy best wishes for your selection dear. great contribution on google maps.

[in10za]

Hi everyone!

Let me briefly introduce myself:

Name: Alena

Location: Krakow, Poland — though I’m originally from Kiev, Ukraine.

What I love about being a Local Guide: to share photos (of hotels' rooms, menus, goods on shelves, etc.) making our life easier.

My favorite cuisine to explore: national cuisine of each country I am visiting.

Fun Facts About Me:

1) I've taken a photo of a ghost in Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia;

2) When I was 4 years old my friend and I left my home for a big adventure trip, but it ended in 7 hours with the police escorting us back home

[Ajskyes]

Times Square, NYC     Hi Everyone !

1. Name: Dr. Ajinkya Buradkar

            To keep it easy, I prefer people calling me AJ

2. Location: Mumbai, India, nah nah "Its Incredible India"

                 Originally I hail from City of Oranges thats Nagpur, India

3. About Myself: I am budding doctor by profession in Mumbai and currently pursuing my dream to achieve medical residency spot in United States.

                        While in hospital, I take care of patients but when I am not in clinic, I take care of my community. Every place I travel as work-tour or as a tourist, I always                            leave a guiding trail by writing reviews and making good connections with locals. Meeting new people, Networking and Making connection as human bond                            are on top of my mind. 

4. Being a Local Guide: I cannot imagine a day without google maps. You travel anywhere, look for any store or inquire about timings, everything has been put on google                         maps by the people and for the people; And I am not taking this for granted, I want to reciprocate it back to the community and that gives me a                                               feeling of being proud local guide. I have not only written reviews and posted pictures, but always took opportunity to add a missing place or make                                         an edit to wrong information. One thing which I do on top priority is "Accessibility facilities for disabled people", I see for their convenience as they are                                   the ones who suffer the most if they don't get proper guidelines. I encourage all Local Guides to unite together and do revolutionary for the society.

5. My Favorite Destinations Explored: I leave no opportunity to travel. In India, right from Himalayan Trekking Camps at top to Ferry boats at KanyaKumari at bottom of                           India, I explored everything.  I hail from West part of India, so Goa's beaches and Sahyadris mountain range were explored a lot of times since childhood. I                          am yet to explore east part of my country, and I plan to execute it very soon. Best trip so far has been USA, where I got to stay in NYC for 5 months and                                have explored every nook and found every hidden gems in city's corner.

6. My Favorite Cuisines: My love those circles kept in square boxes and eaten in triangles aint getting lesser anytime. Yes, I am talking about Italian food. I love pizzas.

                         Apart from that, Mexican shrimp tacos from Chelsea Market are worth dying for. And Shake-Shak burgers to Artichoke pizza, list would go on.

7. Fun Fact About me: I am technology geek with go pro on my head. Armoured with pixel 2 and Google assistant and Ofcourse google maps on board, no destination is                           too far. My love for learning different languages help me know culture in depth and guide tourists at ease.

Hope to meet you all at Google Connect Summit 2018 this October! #LocalGuidesConnect.

[hemus7]

@Anna- i had the same issue due to an auto spam filter . I then realized it was since I mentioned a local restaurant by name. Make sure your intro dont have any probable spam words. Hope this helps

[ivanirianto]

hello world, i still didnt believe this LG exist after i reach lvl 7.. where have i been? well there is always for the first. so this is my first massage. thank you.

1. Name: ivan 
2. Location: bandung, west java, indonesia
3. What I love about being a Local Guide: when your photo make a big hit view (in my review), and find a new thing that others can't.
4. My favorite cuisine to explore: i like to explore some traditional cuisine and some italian delight. but some seafood is likeable too.
5. Fun Fact about me: I dont know, but i believe when i've got e-mail from google map says "Congratulations, your review helped people over 100times! Millions of people rely on reviews like yours to learn what places are like" it makes me happy, there is somebody out there maybe get helped from me. there is many ways to make a good thing and get better world. may be this is what i can do. the easiest way to get more people helped. otherwise i'd loved being helped.. so cheers up world.

[XanderO]

Hello @ivanirianto @Ajskyes @PoppyMustard

Welcome to Local Guides community, which is called Connect! It's nice to meet you all here.

If you are new on the Community, please read the Local Guides program rules and Local Guides community policy. First, I'd recommend you to read this topic. It suggests the various ways to have fun and engage as a part of the community. Go through the helpful articles in theHelp Desk. Learn how to make your photo posts even more engaging here. Open the "Please read: Posting in" each board: General Discussion, Travel and Advice, Let's Meet-Up, Photos and Discoveries, Photography, Mapping Your World , Search the community before posting as others may have asked your question (and received an answer) already. Interact and communicate freely with other Local Guides. Share your discoveries and experiences.

Sure you can find very wonderful people and interesting information here. Don't be shy :), so please feel free to ask questions and engage with the Community.

BTW @Ajskyes nice photo there, that picture was shot in NY, right?

Warm regards,

Alexander

[XanderO]

@Badruddeen You're welcome brother. Someone has to do it anyway 🙂 How are you doing BTW?