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a letter of slight regret to my boss while "on assignment," um, as it were:

i am sorry and saddened to report that there were no food booths. i asked the guide and she said that at the toyota pavilion and the exhibition, there was a focus on technology and vehicles.

i had hoped to find some food booths pertaining to toyota or food in general, but the part of the expo where the gourmet booths were, were not near and not on the itinerary.

we had three free hours to walk around, but the food booths were no accessible. this is as much disappointing to me as i'm sure it is to you. i had so little time to go inside the expo places, that the best i could do, was try and find some menus to shoot.

unfortunately, i could not find any. in spite of this major disappointment, because i know our focus is food, i have shot a lot of footage of the restaurants that we ate at during the trip. i know this is not much and again i apologize.

i am trying to be responsible and do my best while alone. i am also sad to report that since i tried to get as much footage as possible, i am lacking in photographs. all in all, i have about 8 photos that we might be able to use, and around 4 hours of DV footage.

now that we are in tokyo, i hope to shoot some footage that we can use for the japanese "atmosphere." i hope that with this footage, and the additional materials from both the restaurants in nagoya and the expo, we are able to put something together.

i am sorry if i have only been able to do half a job, but again, i am trying to do my best. today we went to akihabara, and i did not find anything pertaining to food that we would not have in thailand. tomorrow morning i am having my friend take me around to the shopping venues around central tokyo in order to try and find something to buy for you and your show.

i gave your business card to the toyota executives, and also the magazine, so if you do meet them, i am sure they will know you through my interim introductions. if there is anything else that i may be able to do while here, i have about 3 free hours on monday morning before we head back home to bangkok.

please accept my deepest apologies, but the food and the focus on food was non-existent. i am very positive however, that we can use the information and footage i gathered, for something pertaining to the aichi world expo and also some japanese cuisine.

in tokyo,

bay

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