Day 10- Lost (not the tv show)

I went to work early today. In hopes of roaming around the area for a few minutes. Which I did; then went back to the office. I was working for a little bit but then got hungry. So, I figured I would go look for a bank or ATM do take out some money then grab a bite to eat. I had seen a bank on my way back from roaming. I went in the general direction...but of course, I got lost. I know for sure I went the right way. For those of you who are thinking, "You can't read Japanese. No wonder you got lost." WELL ACTUALLY, I can read Chinese characters which Japanese people use. So I was looking for the characters for bank. Either way, while I was lost I passed by a bank so I went in and made an attempt at taking out some money. The machine would not take either my atm card or my credit card. So, I am screwed. (Oddly enough, I have been very good recently. I haven't done anything to deserve bad karma...) I have 180¥ which is equivalent to $1.75 and two plastic cards that are worthless. Now, my goal is to find a bank that I can take out money from. I tried five different places. FIVE! None of them worked...I gave up and made my way back towards the office. I find the main street that connects to the office. But of course, I somehow get lost again and end up on the bridge I had taken to get home last week. Now that I knew where I was I just turned around and headed to the office. By now I am starving and broke. It has been, probably, an hour and a half since I left the office just to step out, find a bank, and get lunch. Two hours later, 4 'Sumiyoshi station doko desuka?' questions later, I reached the office. After talking to my boss and some reasearch online, 7-11 and post offices have International ATM machines. So now it has become a duel adventure. We head off towards a 7-11. However, no luck. Next is the post office. and YES! IT WORKED!!! When the money came out, I felt as though I had won the lottery. So with my winnings, we went to a supermarket to buy our lunner/dinch (lunch+dinner=lunner/dinch). I was so worried that I would have to survive on 11 eggs, 5 slices of bread, spaghetti noodles, and 2 boxes of dried tomatoe sauce bricks(I don't know what their called in english. But they're these breakable pieces like a chocolate bar. You boil a couple of the pieces in water and it turns into sauce. For those of you who do know what I am talking about, it is like the curry bricks). These were the things I bought last night on my new bike. But now that I know where I can take money out of, I will not go to bed hungry. YEAAAA...I also learned, recently, the japanese postal service was privatized. One can now buy stamps, life insurance, and deposit money. I KNOW, RIGHT?! Buy life insurance at the post office; deposit money into your account?! These things were done by the government before but I guess now its privatized. Where in the states, the postal service was debating whether or to shorten its services. Nevertheless, it was an interesting day and I discovered many new things.

And on the way home I managed to go in a massive loop. and ended up at the office again. FML.