A) Explaining initial plans
- I was going to finish my presentation slides today, but I was too busy.
- We had planned to meet with Sakamoto-san on Aug 10th, but the meeting was pushed back to Aug 20th.
- I had a plan to meet with Ito-san this afternoon.
- I’d initially planned to go to Singapore next month, but it ended up getting canceled.
- I was supposed to meet my friend this week, but she couldn’t come to Tokyo.
- I was scheduled to meet my customer today, but she had to reschedule.
- I was meant to do them earlier, but I had to deal with an issue that came up.
B) Explaining course of action taken
- Instead, we decided to
- We got Gina in as a replacement
- To get around it we used the manual lock
- Alexander managed to contact a specialist who could handle it
- What we did was put off the meeting until next Thursday
- We found a workaround in an old report from last year
- We redid the whole thing
- We had to start from scratch
- We had to go back to the drawing board
- We ended up redoing the whole thing
