2022
Hi dear friends,
This was my first experience hosting a meet up.
That was an amazing day and had a lot of fun. I noticed in the Local Guide Connect a coming up meet-up organized by @Anurdha launching sky lanterns at Kaluthara where is far away from my area. But however myself and my friends @vijaih and @Mickey825 wanted to join that meet up because that was we are most awaited event. So we decided to organize a similar meet up in Anuradhapura following the Kaluthara meet-up. We were very excited to organize this meet-up. I asked help from @AnuradhaP because I haven’t organize a meet up before. Thanks to @AnuradhaP that was very easy to organize my very first meet up. He advised me and helped me a lot.
I order the sky lanterns online and got it on time. I asked my neighbors and brothers fried to join us to launch the sky lanterns. Before the scheduled time we launched one lantern for trial. It was successful.
On that day my best buddies @vijaih and @Mickey825 came to my home. That was a very enjoyable day. My brother’s friends also came early and helped us to set the lanterns.
First, we unpacked the lanterns. The lanterns came with an individual packing and need to unfold carefully because it’s made of a special thin paper. Then we slicked the Logo on lanterns and kept dry the glue. We took funny photos too.
After that we all went to our selected location Nuwarawewa (Nuwarawewa Tank). That was a windy day so we had to face unexpected problems. Few lanterns was burn before launch and finally we was success and launch rest of lanterns that was an amazing experience to all specially for kids. The lanterns flew high. We all enjoyed lot and was very happy.
Rest of the lunching all the lanterns we enjoyed eating sandwich which were brought by our family friends.
That was a nice meet up, not only for Local Guides but also my family and neighbors. Some asked about “Local Guides”. We explain them what we are doing as a Local Guides and how we help the community by contribute to Google maps. They thanks and requested to organize this event in next year too.
