Paying the rent

Another month has passed and it is time to pay the rent (and other bills) again. I have all the papers in order, so I can transfer the money from my bank account to the landlady's account. So, on Friday morning, before going to the last sessions of the workshop (the discussion sessions) I went to the nearest ATM to do it. It is good to be able to use the menus in English, but I found problems immediately. After typing many numbers, it looks like it is about to do the transaction, but a message tells me that I have not activated the option. I could have been told at the beginning. An example of excellent programming.

Fortunately, I tried it at normal office hours, so I went into the office just there, looked for a clerk who could speak English, filled up a form that was written only in Chinese —something that I am very used to, and that it is not difficult because they tell you what to put in each box— in order to activate the service and they did it just then. Yes, the card worked perfectly when I tried to do it again. Now, I hope I introduced the right bank account number.