Since I knew that was ordained pastor of the IEE dreamed of the idea of \u200b\u200binviting my father to Zaragoza. Not only would to come to that conclusion, but wanted to know first hand how they lived, who are my friends, how is my home, I spend the money, I meditate aloud on Sundays in my church, which as, what TV shows I see, what I spend my free time and all those little things that parents need to know to stay still and not treat the phone as if you were a teenager. But bureaucratic obstacles are sometimes stronger than the dreams. Especially if you come from the English Consulate in that island.
Three years later the dream returned. And is that dreams are fighting el paso del tiempo. Soñamos para que las cosas no se acaben. Soñamos para hacer perdurable lo que amamos. Soñamos para hacer soportable el mundo en que vivimos. Así que he vuelto a soñar y he creído oportuno que mi padre pase tres meses conmigo ahora que tiene setenta y dos años. Y es que ahora puede caminar, ahora puede hablar, ahora puede recordar fechas y nombres.
Así que me he puesto manos a la obra. Miro el folio que me ha hecho llegar el consulado español en La Habana referente a los documentos necesarios para solicitar el visados de estacia, o sea, para visitas familiares o de turismo y la carne se me pone de gallina.
1. Formulario de solicitud de visa por duplicado.
2. Dos Recent photographs.
3. Passport.
4. Photocopies of your passport.
5. Book tickets with travel dates.
6. Photocopy of the letter of invitation that makes you a notary or the Police in Spain. Birth 7.Certificados proving the kinship between my father and me.
8. Photocopy of my identity.
9. My original registration certificate.
10. Accreditation means. For nine days visa 513, 14 euros. For a longer period of nine days 57 euros multiplied by the number of days to request a visa.
As I know the daily reality of my father and from that island, I list the pitfalls. And breathe deeply. And I get some questions.
1. My father retired charge for something like nine euros per month.
2. In my town there is no photo studio, my father will have to travel to the capital of the province to take pictures and pay in the currency parity with the dollar or the euro.
3. My father has never seen a photocopier. Must travel to the provincial capital and pay the copy services in the currency parity.
4. Any travel agent will be able to maintain a travel reservation date beyond twenty-four hours.
5. A bill coming to Spain and return to Cuba of around nine euros.
6. The birth certificates to prove the kinship between my father and I have to be legalized in Cuba and paid in the currency parity.
7. A extancia of less than ninety days is not profitable in reference to all the economic costs that requires travel.
8. How can a man who won nine euros a month show at the Consulate of Spain in Havana that has the figure of five thousand one hundred and thirty euros to be with his son ninety days?
9. What English city spends each day fifty-seven euros?
10. What price for a time to enjoy your father?
Tomorrow I will go to a notary to write me a letter my father knows it is welcome to my home and the way they learn the Cuban authorities and the English consulate in Havana. Will be the first step. And it has long been a pragmatic sort. A Protestant pastor who has sat in calculating the bricks before construction begins. And perhaps it is necessary to begin to be a dreamer. Of those who get up in the morning and while looking in the bathroom mirror saying, Good morning Holy Spirit you inside me!
Three years later the dream returned. And is that dreams are fighting el paso del tiempo. Soñamos para que las cosas no se acaben. Soñamos para hacer perdurable lo que amamos. Soñamos para hacer soportable el mundo en que vivimos. Así que he vuelto a soñar y he creído oportuno que mi padre pase tres meses conmigo ahora que tiene setenta y dos años. Y es que ahora puede caminar, ahora puede hablar, ahora puede recordar fechas y nombres.
Así que me he puesto manos a la obra. Miro el folio que me ha hecho llegar el consulado español en La Habana referente a los documentos necesarios para solicitar el visados de estacia, o sea, para visitas familiares o de turismo y la carne se me pone de gallina.
1. Formulario de solicitud de visa por duplicado.
2. Dos Recent photographs.
3. Passport.
4. Photocopies of your passport.
5. Book tickets with travel dates.
6. Photocopy of the letter of invitation that makes you a notary or the Police in Spain. Birth 7.Certificados proving the kinship between my father and me.
8. Photocopy of my identity.
9. My original registration certificate.
10. Accreditation means. For nine days visa 513, 14 euros. For a longer period of nine days 57 euros multiplied by the number of days to request a visa.
As I know the daily reality of my father and from that island, I list the pitfalls. And breathe deeply. And I get some questions.
1. My father retired charge for something like nine euros per month.
2. In my town there is no photo studio, my father will have to travel to the capital of the province to take pictures and pay in the currency parity with the dollar or the euro.
3. My father has never seen a photocopier. Must travel to the provincial capital and pay the copy services in the currency parity.
4. Any travel agent will be able to maintain a travel reservation date beyond twenty-four hours.
5. A bill coming to Spain and return to Cuba of around nine euros.
6. The birth certificates to prove the kinship between my father and I have to be legalized in Cuba and paid in the currency parity.
7. A extancia of less than ninety days is not profitable in reference to all the economic costs that requires travel.
8. How can a man who won nine euros a month show at the Consulate of Spain in Havana that has the figure of five thousand one hundred and thirty euros to be with his son ninety days?
9. What English city spends each day fifty-seven euros?
10. What price for a time to enjoy your father?
Tomorrow I will go to a notary to write me a letter my father knows it is welcome to my home and the way they learn the Cuban authorities and the English consulate in Havana. Will be the first step. And it has long been a pragmatic sort. A Protestant pastor who has sat in calculating the bricks before construction begins. And perhaps it is necessary to begin to be a dreamer. Of those who get up in the morning and while looking in the bathroom mirror saying, Good morning Holy Spirit you inside me!
0 comments:
Post a Comment