So, humm, about CANADA.

Ok, so i went on a tangent in the last post ("Let's talk about the weather") and didn't even talk about the weather in Canada all that much, so i owe another post.

I did my first sales trip in Quebec yesterday, to the city of Trois-Riviere ("three-Rivers"), so named because it was established where three rivers meet. If you leave from Quebec City where I live, it is located halfway to Montreal, so it's about an hour and a half drive. I immediately liked the look of this historic city, which is known as both a world capital in the pulp and paper industry since 1930, and as the National Poetry Capital of Quebec (Thanks, Wikipedia!), with plaques of poetry installed across the city center. I guess it is odd to be the capitals for an industrial product and a creative one, but maybe the region's poets wrote so much that they felt the need to build a paper factory? Or maybe the paper makers decided they "oughta do something with all that paper" and thus started writing poetry. Hmmm.

Down the Boulevard des Forges, the biggest street in Trois-Rivieres.

Anyways, we were to meet this Quebecain lady named France in this formerly English town to discuss her getting our product in the chain of fifteen carpet-and-tile stores she manages, so the potential was already good. France was great with us, explaining that she already had six floor-warming products (When in California I am shocked if tile shops even carry any at all), but my colleagues (Gaby, the company's other distributor, and Philippe, my mentor in this venture) where great at dealing with a seemingly tough situation. France is a true professional who also does interior design, so she knows very well her work and can see that our product is of very high quality (Trust me, I worked in the factory for two weeks last year to make some cable: our standards are very strict, the quality impeccable), but she readily admits that the cheaper cables out there will simply sell more. Anyways, the product is so technical i won,t go into details about it here, but if you want an explanation of my product, visit one of our partner's sites here where you can even find a video.

I myself made sure to not say much, but instead just absorb everything. The process is fun but of course, I am dying to talk, and I make a conscious effort to talk about 1/10th of the time i want to. Ha ha.