Que Pasa Papa?

The next installment in the adventures of my son Seth continues. As you may remember Seth quit his job and his apartment in New York to travel through Europe. He settled in Barcelona because “its all about the Latin women” kind of thing. Between visa problems and the immigration office he has been busy establishing residence in Spain. His sister was able to visit him over Christmas vacation and according to the reports, Spain has been cold this winter season but Seth is doing well.

Today I received a request for a little help with his “Spanish language education” fund, which I am happy to help with. It is so great to have an adventurer in the family and I am very proud of Seth. Here is his latest letter recorded for posterity.

Que pasa papa?

If you don’t know, that’s Spanish for what’s up pop. Anyways – it is freezing here and raining which doesn’t help my head cold. I have some really good news, I moved just moved into a new flat and place is amazing, this is nicest apartment I’ve ever lived in. I had been looking for a place for a while and was not finding anything worth moving into, most apartments here are really small and shity. So I decided to post an ad about myself on a local community website and a guy from Venezuela responded. The apartment that I found is a 5 bedroom, 3 bath flat in the gothic quarter, i know you don’t the area, but if you want to live in the center of BCN, the gothic quarter is where it’s at. I am paying more than i wanted to, but i have a huge bedroom with a private balcony, and flat it’s self has a tremendous amount of space, I even have an outside patio in the back which is so sweet.

The other good news is that I will be going to school here in BCN. The school is city ran and is one the best language schools in the city. Every semester the school has a lottery for new students, once you win the lottery you are guaranteed a spot in the next semester. I know people who have been waiting 3 years to get in but yesterday was the lottery and I was picked! One the best things about the schools is that is only 200 a semester, which is really cheap considering that some of the best private schools cost 1,000 for a single month and this schools semester is 5 months. So I am really happy that I will be able to continue my Spanish education, I plan at least taking 2 semesters, so i will be living here for at least another year. There is one small problem, i just spent a load of money moving into my new flat, i had to pay 2 months rents, and now I am gutted. So i am asking to help me out with school, it’s only 200 bucks, and what’s 200 bucks to help your son better his education with. No seriously I would really appreciate it if you can help me, let me know as soon as you can ok? So has is every thing in sunny Cal? My Internet time is going to expire but I will get online tomorrow.

love ya-senor Seth

So there you have it. To see the beginning of the adventure you can do a search of the web site for “Seth” or go to ‘Seth Goes to Spain‘ or to ‘The Girls are as Cold as the Weather‘. I will keep this thread going.