Friday, October 15, 2010

Docs for VISA for Fracne

For the internship starting from October, I went to the French Embassy in Tokyo in the mid September.

Internship visa is not mentioned in the site of french embassy in Japan.
- convention de stage
- passport (returned when the visa is issued)

Here are the documents I had to give
- passport
- Commission charge, about 10000 yen
- Proof of habitation in France
- ID and Facture of Owner
- Convention de stage
- Inscription sheet

not needed
- RIB
- Koseki syouhon


Sunday, October 10, 2010

Insurance

海外では医療費は高額!
留学先が違えば、それぞれ文化や社会保障制度も違うもの。
日本と比べて医療費が高いというのも、その一つです。
国名都市名盲腸で2泊3日の手術入院(2008年AIU実績)
アメリカニューヨーク216万円
アメリカ ホノルル195万円
イギリスロンドン151万円
韓国ソウル63万円
日本東京30~40万円


大学生協の保険
http://www.tanuro.com/procedure/bookmark.html
自分はGF型に加入している。
海外で適用されるが、病気の場合は入院しない限り、保険金はもらえない。
一番の問題は額が低いことか。

Aprilというフランスの保険会社のこのプランに加入することにした。

Business card

Business card (la carte de visite in french) is useful when we first meet people. We just exchange cards and this is more elegant than asking the phone number and take notes. I expect not less this kind of opportunities in Paris.

Ooprint http://www.ooprint.fr/ helps us to do this. They offer free plan for 100 cards.
In the site you just have to select a template and fill blanks and add options if you want, and this costs.

- paper quarity : 3 euros
- make back side (default is their ads) to white : 6 euros
- case : 2 euros
- delivery : 6 euros

Finally it costed 21 euros. but still not expensive.
I paied buy a credit card and I just wait for 6-8 business days.
I didn't know this is such easy.