Bank Account

When school was over for today, I went to 新生銀行 (Shinsei Bank) in Shinjuku to get that bank account I was talking about. Apart from being one of the coziest banks I have ever been to, the service was great, and everything went more smoothly than I could ever have expected. Though I had to sit down and wait for almost half an hour (in a quite comfortable chair, I might add), once my number was called it didn't take long before I walked out of there with my brand new ATM card.

Even nicer was that I didn't even had to get up from my chair while the whole thing was taken care of - they came to me. And another nice touch was that they allowed me to choose the color of my card from among twenty something different nuances. I picked a very nice shade of almost viridian green they called crocodile. I would have given you a picture, but my camera wouldn't give a close enough representation of the color. 

I am currently awaiting a package from my mother, by the way, containg no less than two kilograms of pick and mix candy. While very popular in Sweden, such candy doesn't exist at all here in Japan - one of the very few reasons I wonder whether I could really live here indefinitely. But I suppose as long as I have a steady supplier, I'll be alright. Thanks mom! You're a life saver! :D