Our next stop after White House was a working lunch at the Export Important Bank of the United States.
We were received y The Hon. Patricia Loui, Member of the Board of Directors, Eximbank, The Hon. Nani Coloretti Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management, Dr. Robert Wang, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Henry Steingass, Regional Director for South and Southeast Asia, United States Trade and Development Agency, Jason Tengco, Senior Advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Export panel featuring representatives from General Electric, Caterpillar, and Oshkosh.
We were asked to introduce ourselves one by one.
It was a free seating. I shared the same table as George Chunkau Mui, Senior Advisor, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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Typical of a working American lunch
My lunch- brown rice, chicken breast, salad.
Although I was still in pain, with very little breakfast, I was craving for food. I must have eaten too much rice, my stomach felt like exploding. I went to the toilet which was several hallways away. Their floors and walls were made of white Italian marble. Maraming pera itong Export and Import Bank.
I unloaded everything in my tummy. I remembered what the PAL nurse told me, sometimes the carbonate in the colas help.
When I went back to the meeting room, I took a can of Coke hoping to release whatever gas was lurking in my belly. Wala ring epek. My stomach continued to bother me. I knew it wasn’t gas, because there’s no air coming out of my body.
