Yay, our bikes are sold!!! A canadian couple bought em. Man what a hassle.. first we had to go to a police office and get some paper saying “I AM NOT THE OWNER OF THIS BIKE ANYMORE”. By “get some paper” I mean an hour of waiting for them to fill out some form. And then you have to go to the bike shop where you bought the bike and ask them to register the new owners. Yupp. Well it was actually no surprise to me.This morning we also visited the city hall for the 100th time. Today we had to get them to lower the cost of the health insurance we got. We got the bill in the mail the other day but since we didn’t have an income in Japan during 2009, we get it much cheaper. And again.. none of their freakin systems are synched or digitalized, so that’s why we got some standard bill with a fixed cost. At this point I don’t care that everything takes so long to fix and that they today for the 100th time took a copy of my ID and asked where I get my money from… even though I gave them all possible information when I applied for my VISA before I got here. You just have to learn that what takes 15 min back home takes 2 hours here. You just have to stay calm and polite. At this point I just find it a bit amusing. It’s like when you’ve been to McDonalds too many times and know what they’re gonna ask you next.. “To go?”. Instead you just tell them all of the information before they have the time to ask. But.. it’s doesn’t really speed up the process over here though… for some reason. But at least you know what to expect!