A day off

Today I have taken a break from The Fair Tailor.
I'm in Pokhara and today I went paragliding overlooking the Himalayas - Simply amazing!
Tomorrow I will go back to Kathmandu.
They have a local election here today and I think it's the start of the Nepali new year, but I think the bus will go tomorrow.

Today, on the way to the start site for the paragliding, I talked to an English woman who have been teaching at a village school for a month. She said that there were hardly any men in the village, they were all abroad working. Even though the women have to take care of the family they have hardly any rights. It us usually someone in the husbands family who is in charge.
When I came here on the bus yesterday I sat next to a man from the area, he had been away working for 20 months in Dubai. He got married three years ago and he had not seen his wife for 20 months, that is tough. And real life for a lot of people in this country.
His wife had stayed in Nepal to take care of his parents...

We made IQube!

I'm in Pokhara, I got here by bus. It "only" took eight hours on a very bumpy road.
The Swedish Fair Trade students I wrote about earlier are here as well and they sent me an text yesterday saying that all the bumping around coming here made them an inch shorter. I do believe them.

But now to the big thing.
We made IQube!!!

We got an email from them today saying that they had 200 ideas presented to them, they then met with 80 of the entrepreneurs and finally selected 30 of them.
So, this means a lot of things, for one we will get an office, a business coach and business training. We will also get access to the network of more than 200 companies connected to IQube today.
So what I am trying to say is that it is a big deal.

IQube doesn't only consider the business idea, they put a lot of importance in who the entrepreneurs are. And we made it.
Feels kinda good :)