Who brings a granade launcher to the opening of a childrens home?

Yesterday was the day for the big inauguration of Child Watabaran center's new childrens home. We were 300 guests.

I went there with the Child Watabaran minibus together with people from Leaseplan, who has funded the new childrens home, from Net4Kids, a Dutch NGO, Magnus from Xdin and some of the Child Watabaran staff.
After we had passed a point on the road, the miltary started shutting the road down, since the president was comming to the inauguration. 300 guests attended and there were 1200 military/police guarding the event.
The Maoists are threathening the president, hence the big security detail.
I can understand why they could find use for M16s and sniper rifles,
but I can not really understand why they brought granade launchers to the event.
Did they plan to shoot granades at the childrens home if something would happen there?

Anyway, in the last minute the president canceled his visit due to security reasons.
Despite the fact that the president didn't show up it was a nice ceremony and it is amazing to see the result
of all the hard work put into this project.

For The Fair Tailor things are going really well.
We have finished the 20 sample tailor made dress shirts that I set out to get with me back to Sweden when I fly out tomorrow.
Govinda is doing a great job and we are soo lucky to have found him.
I have had some troubles with YouTube this morning, so I can not add any video right now.
But stay tuned, it will come soon.

There have been something wrong with this post. It looks a bit strange and some of the words are missing. I have tried to fix it, but I may make it look even more strange.

Sebastian Stjern

THE FAIR TAILOR
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The Consule General

This morning I have met with the Swedish Consul General here in Nepal.
Finding places here in Nepal is not always easy, often the address you are given is just the part of the city where the place is located.
Luckily people here are friendly and several persons have drawn maps in my notebook. The taxi dropped me of 20 minutes before the meeting and luckily it only took me 20 minutes to find the Consulate :)
The Consul and I talked for about an hour about what to think of when doing business in Nepal, the political situation and the power shortage.
The Consul's brother had actually lived in Sweden and worked at Volvo.

The political situation here is fragile and all political parties are working together to create a new constitution that should be finished within one year.
The Maoist government who runs the country now was actually elected, and the consul pointed out that the king left his throne without any violence.

It will be interesting to see how the country develops over the coming years. Hopefully Lina and I will be working with Nepal for many years to come.

My plan for the next couple of days is to work on ways to market this blog and The Fair Tailor.
I will also leave Kathmandu for a few days to see a little more about the country and learn more about the Nepalese way.