Some more settling in...

This morning, Tony, my Rotary sponsor, met me bright and early outside my house. It was definitely nice to finally get to know him! We went to Sunnybank Plaza, so that I could finish setting up my bank account, but they were not open yet, so we went into the mall for a bit. Tony gave me his old mobile phone to use, so we stopped in one of the stores where I bought a SIM card, and I now have a working mobile phone!



(I am not sure how it works, but it does, somehow!) =D



We stopped to get a cup of coffee, and chat for a bit, and then we went back to the bank. So now I have a bank account as well! Hopefully, my scholarship money should be arriving soon, and I will be able to pay my tuition, and thus, enroll for classes and get my student ID card.

We accomplished our missions, so Tony dropped me back off, with a very nice invitation to hang out with him and his family tomorrow, which I accepted.

Later on in the day, I walked to campus to try to find out exactly how I could pay my tuition and fees. I went to the cashier, who told me that I had a couple of options: BPAY, where I pay the tuition through the universities website, a credit card or bank card, cash, or direct deposit from my bank to the school's bank.

Well, I didn't think that cash was a good idea, and all my credit cards are in American dollars (so they would have charged me a foreign transaction fee, boo), and I definitely didn't think I could make a $9,000 payment on my debit card, so that only left me two options. Next, the cashier directed me to the Student Admin center, to figure out how I could get online to the school's website so I could pay it that way. Eventually, I found out that this is not possible for several different reasons.

Well, that makes things easy. Direct deposit it is! And hopefully soon!