Mailing

So at least right now one of the reasons want to flee to Tokyo right now is not the heat. It's boiling hot in here, in Finland, who would have guessed. Weather is almost reaching the 30 Celsius degrees which is really rare here. Our poor bunnies are all overwhelmed by the weather and this house holds only fan belongs to them now. Also my old laptop is experiencing troubles with the weather as well, since it is old and already little bit broken it really cannot handle the heat and has already twice emergency shutdown itself in order to prevent overheating. So I'm basically just waiting when it says "puff" again and I'll lose the work whichever is open on the screen on the moment.

Go!Go!Nihon finally answered (yeah it's really once a week if even that fast but who could you blame when we don't pay them for their services?) but not to the question about the beginning date of the school. The message can be summarized to this one sentence: "-- can you please make sure that your name is clearly visible on the financial documents". Well, I double checked all the documents and my name stands clearly with big font size in the front page of every document, sometimes even with the social security number. The problem here is that if it is official document they want there just isn’t any way to get a paper with "more clear way for the name to be visible" in these documents, because these documents are the ones I were given by the bank, by the tax agency and by my employers accountant.

So I now mailed them back and asked if they need me to circle the names up for them or something like that, because these are the documents we need to live with now. I also reminded them about the school beginning; let's hope that they will answer to that question now, as well as to the questions about the fees of 9 months studies which is also still hanging. When we first started to apply through Go!Go!Nihon I were already aware about the problems we might face with their services because many other people from other countries have blogged about the same issues. So it hasn’t really come as a surprise for us and I'm already relieved that we are not getting an apartment through them since others have had problems for example with the apartment matching its description. And the other significant thing is that not everything is told about what you should actually get yourself ready for. One thing is the Tokyo’s residency card, we googled about that. But never mind those, it's still awesome that they're able to do all the paperwork for us and they do it for free. So I warmly do recommend doing this through Go!Go!Nihon, but only if you're wake enough to also confirm the information you're given from elsewhere and keep your eyes open for surprising things!

Gion (Kyoto), 2012