The cheap yen is not bad at all :D (at least for travellers)

Paying for school trip

So Tuesday i went out to the main post office in my city to try to withdraw the money i have to pay for my school trip, since i saw that the Yen had dropped a bit the day before.

Had checked the national bank website one in a while.

It kinda falls a bit, then rises a teeny bit, then falls a tweeny bit, but then fall a teeny bit ALRIGHT might as well get this done :D!

You can choose to have the display(touch)screen in English, which is very convenient since i can't read all them kanji's yet.

I checked before, when you have to type the amount of money that you want, it tells you that you can withdraw a maximum of 200.000 Yen, coincidentally the exact cost of my school trip, very convenient i thought.

But when i tried to withdrew the 200.000 Yen (pr. time/day?) which i needed it just spat out my card (Mastercard Debet) with a receipt, confused i asked a really kind guy at the post counter and he told me that it said something about my balance not being sufficient.

Have i been robbed without knowing?

So i tried again with 150.000 Yen, then 100.000, then 75.000 Yen, then 50.000... yes. i got the 50.000 Yen.

So i was like ok, for some reason i can only get 50.000 Yen. Which means i'll have to withdraw 4 times to get the amount that i need. So i tried to withdraw 50.000 Yen again, but this time it did the same thing as before about my balance not being sufficient.

(O_O)Z

I was like don't tell me there ain't more on my than 50.000 Yen, there were supposed to be more then enough for me to pay for my school trip since i also won AFS stipendium.

And then the unimaginable thing came to mind, someone (bastard) hacked my account... Nooooooo!!!!

Of course acting all composed i went home as usually, and when finally there i popped up my computer...

Time out, sorry i'll have to study for the test tomorrow to might continue this later.

See ya~  

In the end

2013 September 29th

Back with the update for this post, i must admit i kinda forgot about it (completely).

Anyways, yes my account my alright and my balance as it should be.

So at least i knew that my balance wasn't insufficient as the ATM claimed.

It seems that for some reason i can only withdraw a maximum of 50.000 yen pr. day, so i ended up having to visit the post office four days to get the amount that i needed.

But i guess it's alright, it might have something to do with the fact that i have a teens Mastercard Debet.

Transferring the money and paying

So later we got instructions as to how we should transfer the money through the post office. So yeah, i had to go there again...
My host mother offered to do it for me since it was a bit complicated, but they have already done so much for me, and since i can just stop by on my way home from school i thought it would be best to try and get it done by myself, since it was me who wanted to  go to begin with.