Nov. 27th (The third day)

I got off work at almost 9pm. So I am a little tired now but think I should keep writing about my business trip before I forget the feelings whether they are good ones or bad ones.
I looked at my passport to see what the exact date was when I came back to Korea from Australia. It was Nov. 27th, 2005. So I was abroad again after about an year from then.
Although I didn't go anywhere special but McCormick place and the hotel during the exhibition, I was just excited about the fact that I was abroad.:) Every morning we took the shuttle bus to go to McCormick place from the hotel and on some days, the bus took different routes so I could see the Great Lakes, different streets and shops at least. Especially I like to see coffee shops that open early in the morning, which is hardly seen in Korea. Shops or people starting early day give me constructive impressions. I don't like to get up early in the morning, though.
I have three major accounts that include U company, the biggest foreign buyer for my company, A company, the German company that belongs to Bbraun and Toshiba. As of today, I think Toshiba will be John's account. Frank said during the meeting this evening that Eunmi's software company will make a big contract with Toshiba to supply their software but we failed to get the chance to supply our probes to them. And the software will be sold to Toshiba through us. (I don't understand why we need to be the middleman. Maybe it still leaves us opportunities to supply our probes to Toshiba by keeping the contact.) Frank said John will take care of it from now on. It means he has to do all the paper work for this unprofitable deal instead of me. hehe But the question remains. Why did Frank get John, a manager to do such time-consuming work instead of me? Oh, a little off the subject.:)
Anyway, I hadn't met anyone at U company except John, the CEO who I met at WFUMB in Seoul. So I suggested to Frank that we go over to their booth and he introduce them to me. When we went there, Rossa, the sales manager who is a Korean Canadian and Frank likes so much greeted us first. She said she immigrated to Canada in 1992, which mostlikely means she is almost like a native English speaker. Then I met Laurent, the founder and CTO who is French and Kris, the software engineer who talked too fast. Then I met Amol, the service manager who I thought would be fat and shabby-looking. My imagination turned out to be completely wrong. He was a pretty handsome and intelligent-looking man.:) It was fun to find out how the people who I had corresponded with really look like. It would have been the same for them. What would they have thought about how I look in person compared to the image of me in their imagination? Hmm...:)