Money in... money out
First things first: I finally got a laptop. So, some pics are available at previous posts (actually only one...).
Good news: I received my scholarship, so the documentation was right.
Bad news: some days before that I got the invoice from the international house. That means that I had to pay this month's rent.
Ok, considering average rent prices in Japan, it's not expensive at all. But I'm supposed to deposit the value at the university's bank account or whatever that is.
When I was in Himeji, I paid directly to the landlord, which avoided lots of trouble. And besides the excessive use of local dialect and that she talked too fast for someone who's not fluent in Japanese, she was nice, so I had no problems there.
Back to the present, I'm supposed to deposit the money in a X bank account (again, I'm not giving names) or ATM. The handling charges you have to pay change depending where you pay and how you pay.
By when, I mean if it is with the X bank's clerk, ATM; other banks' clerk or ATM or convenience stores ATM. By how, one may pay in cash or cash card.
The lowest handling charge is tranfering through X bank's clerk. The highest is through other banks' clerks. The things in between would take too much time explaining, so here I finish the tutorial.
X bank closest branch is not exactly close. From Yoshida campus, it's a little far to go on foot, so trains, buses or physical endurance and free time are recommended. Trains and buses would not make going there worth the money.
Besides, there's an X bank ATM inside the campus. That's also a good option. And it has menus in English and even in Portuguese! Wonderful!
Well, the option used to pay that invoice wasn't available in any other language than Japanese... and I found out a little later that that ATM doesn't accept payment in cash... (after asking some help to the university's Foreign Students Division)
Hope is still not lost, as a requirement to receive the scholarship, I was asked to create a postal savings account, so I have a cash card. It could work...
... if postal savings account cash cards could be used. Unfortunately, they can't in that ATM.
It was Friday, and since April 30th is holiday, I'd pay the invoice that day (it was written: "pay your rent by the end of each month"...). So I was told that a certain chain of convenience stores have an ATM which accepts cash.
But it wasn't so close (10 min walking... no prob) and it was in Japanese only.
Ok, with some instructions of how to pay it in English and my Japanese language skills it may work. And actually it did. But not without taking a long time. In part because I'm still slow at reading, and in part because I was taking extra care to avoid mistakes.
And in part because, since it took a long time reading, when I noticed that the queue to use the ATM was getting long, I stopped and let other people go first... Am I stupid or too considerate?
After I wrote about the epopoeia of a pre-flight, some friends said that I complicate too much simple things... You know, maybe they're right.
Good news: I received my scholarship, so the documentation was right.
Bad news: some days before that I got the invoice from the international house. That means that I had to pay this month's rent.
Ok, considering average rent prices in Japan, it's not expensive at all. But I'm supposed to deposit the value at the university's bank account or whatever that is.
When I was in Himeji, I paid directly to the landlord, which avoided lots of trouble. And besides the excessive use of local dialect and that she talked too fast for someone who's not fluent in Japanese, she was nice, so I had no problems there.
Back to the present, I'm supposed to deposit the money in a X bank account (again, I'm not giving names) or ATM. The handling charges you have to pay change depending where you pay and how you pay.
By when, I mean if it is with the X bank's clerk, ATM; other banks' clerk or ATM or convenience stores ATM. By how, one may pay in cash or cash card.
The lowest handling charge is tranfering through X bank's clerk. The highest is through other banks' clerks. The things in between would take too much time explaining, so here I finish the tutorial.
X bank closest branch is not exactly close. From Yoshida campus, it's a little far to go on foot, so trains, buses or physical endurance and free time are recommended. Trains and buses would not make going there worth the money.
Besides, there's an X bank ATM inside the campus. That's also a good option. And it has menus in English and even in Portuguese! Wonderful!
Well, the option used to pay that invoice wasn't available in any other language than Japanese... and I found out a little later that that ATM doesn't accept payment in cash... (after asking some help to the university's Foreign Students Division)
Hope is still not lost, as a requirement to receive the scholarship, I was asked to create a postal savings account, so I have a cash card. It could work...
... if postal savings account cash cards could be used. Unfortunately, they can't in that ATM.
It was Friday, and since April 30th is holiday, I'd pay the invoice that day (it was written: "pay your rent by the end of each month"...). So I was told that a certain chain of convenience stores have an ATM which accepts cash.
But it wasn't so close (10 min walking... no prob) and it was in Japanese only.
Ok, with some instructions of how to pay it in English and my Japanese language skills it may work. And actually it did. But not without taking a long time. In part because I'm still slow at reading, and in part because I was taking extra care to avoid mistakes.
And in part because, since it took a long time reading, when I noticed that the queue to use the ATM was getting long, I stopped and let other people go first... Am I stupid or too considerate?
After I wrote about the epopoeia of a pre-flight, some friends said that I complicate too much simple things... You know, maybe they're right.
