We left today 2.8.12 klo 7.45AM from Tampere to Helsinki. Hope we have all stuff with us. We try to update our blog as much as we can while we are still in Finland and internet works. Juho & Mikael H
Day -1, MacBook’s repair
We should leave tomorrow but our MacBook Pro just crashed. It won’t start anymore. We hope that we’ll get a new one or this fixed today. Otherwise our start may be delayed and we’ll have problems with visas Mikael
Pojat on poikia ja tytöt on tyttöjä
Autolla Nepaliin -projektia seuratessaan moni on varmasti todennut, että ”pojat ovat poikia”. Tasapuolisuuden nimissä täytyy sanoa, että niin ovat tytötkin tyttöjä! Kun pojat ovat Suomessa laittaneet autoaan ja valmistelleet hurjapäistä seikkailuaan, ovat tytöt Nepalissa suunnitelleet ja valmistaneet näppärillä käsillään (ja jaloillaan) upeita koruja. Samanlaiseen ei kyllä yksikään mies pystyisi. Menin tässä yksi päivä Princess Beadsin ylläpitämään turvakotiin pukemaan naisia mallikuvauksia …
Boys Will Be Boys And Girls Will Be Girls
While following this project, I’m sure many have noted that boys will be boys. Yet I thinks it’s fair to say that also girls will be girls! While back home in Finland, the boys have repaired their car and made preparations for their daredevil adventure, the girls in Nepal have designed and made splendid jewellery with their deft hands (and …
Bead update 30.7.
Beads Hannes and Elina have accomplished a lot during the past two weeks in Nepal with sorting, cataloguing and taking photos of the jewellery. The biggest challenge for them has been to deliver the finished material to Finland, as the internet connections have been really poor (even when downloading overnight they’ve only been able to download a few megabits to …