About Us

About Each One Of Us 20 Curious Kids of Mr. Canu's 1997-98 bilingual 3rd grade at San Elizario Elementary School, El Paso, Texas revised 980613 To write to all of us together please click here

Starting on August 10, 1998, we expect to be, with few exceptions (Manuel and Julio Cesar may be moving to other schools), in Mrs. Rojas' 4th grade at the same school. You can still reach us as before, and also Mr. Canu's 1998-99 3rd grade.

Esta página en español .............. Cette page en français Questa pagina in italiano Diese Seite auf Deutsch .......... Esta pagina em português

A. Cristina Arreola mailto:[email protected]
Dear friends, how is the weather where you live? My name is Cristina. Me, I was born on June 18, 1989. I would like to be your friend. You, would you like to be my friends?
I have 3 dogs: two little ones, a big one. The little ones are named Candy and the other Volcano. The big one is named Lucky. We are good in the class. In the line we are quiet. We have games. In the school I have many friends. You do you have many friends? Do you like to go to school? Me I do like to go to school. In what grade are you? In 1997-98, I am in Third. My favorite animal is dogs and cats.

I am Cristina Arreola.
I am very playful with my dogs and I like to chat with my family. I have two small dogs and a big one. I also have two cats. Me, my preference is to play with the dolls and with my dogs. I also like to go to the swimming pool.

Cristina en español

C Martha Irene Cárdenas mailto:[email protected]
Hello. I want to be your friend. If I see you one day, I will teach you to speak Spanish and that you would teach me how you speak. I was born in 1989 and I also have sisters: one that goes to school and another that doesn't go to school and I also have a brother that goes to first grade in 1997-98 and was born in 1991 and he goes to my school. I like to write as you-all do. I also have a cat and I also like to write English and I like to play with you-all. And I like to meet your friends of your classroom. And I weigh 60 pounds (27 kilos).
--
Hello. My name is Martha Irene Cárdenas and I was born on the 12th of May 1989. I go to Third Grade and I have two sisters and one of four years old goes to school in the kinder and she is named Ruby Gomez and I also have a little brother born in 1991 and he goes to first grade in 1997-98 and my other sister is too little to go to school in 1997-98 and she is named Estrella Casado and we like to play at the pizzeria and also at tag. My favorite food is pizza. I have a kitten and I like to go to school because of my friends, boys and girls, and very good the teacher. Martha en español

D. Alfredo Cardona           mailto:[email protected]
    New friends, how old are you? do you have a dog or a cat? yes or no? which food is your favorite one? do you like school? Are you girls or boys? I am a boy and my name is Alfredo and I want to be your friend. I like burritos of beans with cheese and those of beans. I am brown and with black hair and I also want to ask you what your country is like and how many days you go to the playground.
    I go every day to the playground and me I have two dogs and their names are Gordy and Tot. The burritos are tortilla and that tortilla is made with flour and the cheese is of milk and the beans are like hard but when you cook them they are no longer hard. and they taste very delicious. For that reason they are my favorites and I also want to tell you that I weigh 40 pounds. And you how much do you weigh?
--
I am Alfredo Cardona Jr. I was born on April 6, 1989. My favorite sport is soccer and football. My mom's name is Pati Cardona and my dad's name is Alfredo Cardona. I also have two siblings one is called Abrahan who is in first grade in my school, the other one is called Asael. I also have two dogs: one small and one big, and their names are Gordy and Tot and they are my favorites. And my favorite food is burritos of beans with cheese and of just beans, and macaroni and cheese. And I was born in April 6 of 1989 and I am tall, brown, and with black hair and I will tell you how old are my siblings: one born in 1991, the other one born in 1996 and he is very mischievous and my other brother is also very mischievous. Alfredo en español

E. Liliana Zulema Carrillo mailto:[email protected]
Dear friends
My name first name is Liliana and my second name is Zulema. I use my second name in class since February 11, 1998, when Liliana Portillo, who does not have a second name, joined our class. My birthday is March 19, 1989. My brother's name is Oscar and he is little and he hardly isn't even one year old and I have three siblings and one is called Lorenzo and he was born in 1987 and I have another brother, his name is Alex and he was born in 1985. When the weather is hot, I go into the pool when I get home from school but before going into the pool I do my homework and then I go into the pool. I want to be your friend and I also want to live with you in your region.
--
Dear Friends. What are your names? When are your birthdays, and what are your ages? What ages do your brothers have and when are their birthdays? If you have sisters, tell me their ages, and when are their birthdays. What are your dads' ages and when are their birthdays? What ages do your moms have and what are your moms' ages and when are the birthdays of your moms? Zulema en español

F. Marco Antonio Ceballos mailto:[email protected]
What are your names? How are your names pronounced? also what are you, girls or boys? and also in what grades are you, in third or fourth or second or other grades? also what are your teachers' names? Also do you have computers? and I am Marco and I was born October 8, 1988. My teacher is Mr. Canu and my favorite animal is a bunny and a duck and a dog. And you, what do you like of animals? I have two dogs and a kitten. The names of my dogs, one is called Soltán, the other Lusifer, the kitten's name is Gorila; I also have 4 ducks and roosters and me I make them, the roosters, fight; and my rooster's name is Mainenblue. Whether there are animals which we don't have here and do you like school? I like to play football and also baseball and basketball. Marco en español

G. Julio Cesar Eggenhafer          mailto:[email protected]
    Dear friends, my name is Julius Caesar but my friends call me Julian. I can teach you to you Spanish and you can teach me to me like you speak. I hope you say how old and on what day is your birthday and I hope you visit me in my state and to be able to play and to send us letters and I hope to know you. I like to travel by air to all the countries. We want to be your friends and to play with you English and Spanish and I want you to know me all of us games and other more things to tell to you; I want to be your friend. Here in the school almost all we are Mexican, some are not Mexican.
    The only countries that I know 3: New Mexico, Juarez, Las Cruces. In Juárez everybody goes on foot some people downtown, who are going around crazy with drugs and alcohol, they scream, they say bad words, they break bottles, and they throw bottles and stones to the buses and they fight with people that walk alone because of the piche, the drugs and alcohol and those that are 18 17 16 19 20 write on the walls, they kill the children with a pistol, those that come out to play with their friends and I want to ask several things, for example what subjects you like to do? what do you like to play? what do you like to eat? do you have animals? what are their names of all your animals?
== == == =
I am Julio Cesar Eggenhafer Pérez. I was born January 20, 1989. I like to play basketball and also football; I like math and the computer. I am light brown. I have 2 brothers, 1 sister; one is my brother the oldest he was born in 1980 and my brother the younger he was born in 1986. I like animals such as kittens and all small animals. I like to eat burritos of red chili, nachos, hot dogs and hamburgers, and also the corn on the cob, and also candies; I like the hot sauce of the valentinas and ice-cream and potato chips a lot. I am in third grade. I like almost all sports. I like to watch the cartoons and several Mexican movies, those of here. Julio Cesar en español

H. Xochitl Favela mailto:[email protected]
Hello! I am Xochitl (pronounced "Shocheetl"). I wanted to ask you that if you are women or men? I will tell you to you who is my best friends: Ixtzel, Jovanny, and many other friends. I will tell you a few things: my class is very pretty although they changed me to another school because I lived near the school.
--
My name is Xochitl Favela. My family consists of 4 people. My mom's name is Nena, my brother's name is Agustín and he goes to my school in first grade in 1997-98, the baby's name is Oswaldo, but we call him Jr. Me Xochitl I was born on October 1, 1988. I weigh 90 pounds (Feb 98). I am white, I have eyes of a dark brown color. I have a dog, its name is Benji. My favorite things are to eat spicy potato chips, I like to play on the trampoline -- to go to school, to go out and play on my bike. My favorite color is red pink. Xochitl en español

J. Jesús Martín Frias mailto:[email protected]
Dear e-mail friends, how is the temperature over there? What are your teachers' names? Which are your favorite animals? How old are you? How is your country? Are you big or small? Do you have dogs or cats? I have two dogs, one is called
Tafi and the other one is called Blaki. Is it very cold over there? To what grade do you go? Are there animals which we don't have here? Do you-all play soccer, basketball, or baseball? I weigh 98 pounds.
--
Who I am Jesus Martin Frías. I have eyes of color.
How I am: I am white; I am tall; I was born on September 20, 1988. I am an obedient boy.
My family consists of six. We are four siblings, my dad, and my mom.
My family is kind.
My favorite games are soccer, baseball, basketball.
What I like as to food: pizza, meat tacos, hamburgers, the sandwiches, corn on the cob with cheese, hot dogs, cheese pasta, cereal. And my favorite color is green and I have two dogs. Jesús en español

K. Ixtzel García mailto:[email protected]
Dear friends, I want to see you sometime and that we be friends when we see each other, that you teach me how you speak and that I teach you Spanish. I want you to tell me the names of your classroom. I weigh 60 pounds. My favorite is the rabbit
and a horse and a snub dog. My favorite color is purple and yellow. Which is your favorite color? I have a brother and a sister. My name is Ixtzel García. I was born on the Fourth of July, 1989.

I am Ixtzel García. And I am a girl that I like the computer and to eat cheesecake. My family is Rodolfo, Leti, Perla, and Irvin, and my grandmother, my dogs are 2: Bibi and Uraki. My color of favorite it is the yellow and pink and is all. Ixtzel en español

L. Corina González          mailto:[email protected]
    Dear new friends, how are you? I would like to see you here. The school is very different from yours. Which is your best animal? I would like to go to your region. My name is Corina. I want you to tell me which is your favorite food.
    Here it is very beautiful and how is it over there, beautiful or ugly? What do you like more? How is your home? Is it very beautiful over there? I have 2 dogs. Which is your favorite color? My favorite food is pizza; and you, do you like to go to school? I hope you write us. I have an identical twin, Corina, but she is just a little taller than me. I have a very good teacher; and yours how it he or she, good or does he or she scold you-all a lot? How old are you? Do you have many friends? Do you have animals? What are the names of your animals? How are they, beautiful? Who are your favorite friends?
--
Who I am, me:
I am a girl who likes to pay attention so as to learn. I like to be tidy. I have 2 sisters and a brother and my dad and my mom, and we are a happy family. I have 2 Chihuahua dogs and they are very playful and their names are Tainy and the other one's name is Dunes. I like school a lot and one of my favorite things it is to go visit my cousins. I have a very good mom because she buys me many things. I like to go to school because the teacher is very good. Corina en español

M. Perla González mailto:[email protected]
Dear friends, my name is Perla González and I have a twin and her name is Corina González and I was born one minute ahead of her on December 29, 1988. We are in the same class and our teacher's name is Mr. Canu and he is very, very good and I was with another teacher and his name was Mr. Navarro and the two teachers were good and I liked the two teachers.
And I have 4 siblings and in all we are 6 altogether and my siblings we like all foods and my brothers were born in 1983 the one, and the other one in 1984 and I don't have pets at home and me I am a little bit bigger than my twin and I like to do math and my favorite color is purple. And my favorite animal is the dog and the rabbit, the giraffe and I love my mom and my dad a lot and I love my grandparents. Perla en español

N. Mayra Licon          mailto:[email protected]
    Dear friends, I am Mayra and I want to be your friend and I want to tell you a question: how is your country? how is your school? Dear friends, I want to ask you if you have some pet.   I had two dogs, but one died from the ticks. I had a cat but it died on my 8th birthday, August 26, 1997. What are you favorite foods? and what are your favorite colors? and do you like to go to school?
    I like to go to school because I want to learn about handwriting and learn more English and computer. I want to ask if you go to school and if you have some friends in your school, if you like the school, if you like writing. How many times do you go to the playground?   Do you play a lot?

I am Mayra and my family is very big and I have brown eyes, black hair and my favorite foods are pizza and enchiladas, my favorite color it is blue and me I like to learn a lot and I was born on August 26 1989. And I like to have many friends. and I have a sister and her name is Erika and she was born on May 31, 1988 and I have another brother, Danny, who was born in 1984, and I have another brother, Carlos, and he is was born in 1986. And my youngest brother is Oscar, he was born in 1996.
And my name is Mayra and I was born on August 26, 1989. I have always been the youngest one in my class. And I have 1 dog and a horse Black and a mare Beauty, and Beauty had a female foal in 1997, Pink. When I finish my homework I clean the horses and I ride them, I like to ride Beauty more because she does what I tell her. And I had 4 hens but my dog Daisy ate them, and also I had 5 ducks but they went away, and I have two parakeets and I like animals. And also my favorite game is also to play baseball.

Mayra en español

P. José Magallon mailto:[email protected]
Me I like to play football. I also like to run. My favorite color is green, my favorite food is pizza, the cat, my favorite friend is Julio Cesar. My favorite cartoon is joca. I like to color at school. I like to go to the zoo. My dear siblings Not, Javier, Rosio. Belem Magallon is my mom. My soap opera is Dear Witness. My pet's name is Escrapi. My favorite team of the NFL is the Cowboys. I was born on February 28, 1989. I like that they tell me stories.
--
I have siblings 4 and my best friend is Julio, he that wrote me the letter that I made you is my best friend his name is Julio. Whether you want to be my friend and I want that we be all friends, me and you and he that he made me the letter and his friend. Whether you like to go to P.E. whether you like animals and tell me what are their names; whether you like to go to school and how are you and what do you like to eat? what city do you like more to live in? do you like to see cartoons? And I want to know how your name is pronounced because maybe I don't know how to pronounce your name. My friend Julio made me the letter. I want you to be my friends. José en español

Q. Manuel Marquez     mailto:[email protected]
    I was born on June 27, 1989, in Juarez, Mexico, which is just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas where I have lived since I came here at the age of 7, half way through my year in second grade. I was in kindergarten and then in first grade and the first half of second grade in Juarez.
    What I like in school is to have a lot of friends and I want you all to be my friends through the E-mail.
I have a sister, Divia, she was born in 1989. I have two brothers, Benjamin who was born in 1991, and Sebastian who was born in 1990. My father is Manuel Marquez and he works in a factory. My mother is Ninfa Falcon and she works in another factory where they make clothes. I have a brown and white dog Rambo and a white cat Nieves.
    My favorite sports are football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and tennis.
    I have a Nintendo 64 and a Super Nintendo and a Sega an the game cassettes I have are Mortal Kombat, the Ninja Turtles, Mario Brothers, Soccer, Sonic 1 2 and 3.
    My teacher is nice. Do you have nice teachers too? Manuel en español

R. Hector Mendoza         mailto:[email protected]
          I want to know what are the names of your friends and if you go to school and to what grade you go and how old you are and to which school you go and what you turned out to have a man or woman teacher and which animals you like and what you like to play and if you have sisters or brothers and which are your favorite sports and which color is your favorite one and if you have TV and what do you like best and if you have a car or if you have a bike and if you have a dad or mom and if you have ducks and if there are animals in your region which we don't have here and if you have dogs or cats and if you have birds and what you like to see on TV and what you like such as listening to the radio and if you like songs in Spanish and also how much you weigh, I weigh 60 pounds and I have a dog and how is your hair?
--
I am Hector and I was born on 18 October 1988 and I am big and I have a 5 yearend sister and she goes to kindergarten and my sister is bigger than my cousin but my cousin is 6 years old and I have a little dog and it is a chihuahua and it has bent ears and also it has them big and what my dog likes is the canned food and I have short hair and I have small ears and what I like they are chocolate cookies and milk and as for food it is meat and beans tacos and enchiladas and the green one and spinach and pumpkin and burritos and also my preferred sodas are the cocas, Dr. Pepper and Pepsi and my mom works in a construction company as a secretary and and my mom and my dad's names are Yveen Ochoa and Gil Ochoa and I watch TV in English and I like cartoons and I start to cut the grass.
    My sister has a little Chihuahua puppy. My mother has a big dog, like a bulldog. My dad has a big dog like a weenie dog but it is not a weenie dog. I have a big dog like a Doberman. I have three movies of Three Ninjas.
    What sports do you like?
    Do you have movies on tape?
    Do you have Sega?
    Do you have Super Nintendo?
    Do you have games for the Sega or Super Nintendo? Hector en español

S. Pedro Luis Muñoz mailto:[email protected]
Dear friends, I would like to be your friend.
My name is Pedro Luis Muñoz.
I would like to ask you things such as if it is very cold or if there are many animals which we don't have here and if you have seen one and if there are many children who speak Spanish. Now I'll tell you about El Paso. The city is very big with buildings and cars, parks, museums, I like it where I live but I sometimes I want to live where I was born and I was born in California.
--
My name is Pedro Luis Muñoz. I was born May 3, 1989.
My parents' names are Pablo and María Guadalupe Muñoz, I have 2 sisters, the eldest's name is Cynthia, she is 21 years old, she works in a store at Cielo Vista Mall, the middle one's name is Karina and she was born in 1988 and she is in 4º grade (1997-98) in this same school. I like to play soccer. I like a lot to draw and also to watch cartoons, my favorite food tacos of ground meat and bean burritos, cookies and soda.
I help my dad to feed the roosters and to give them clean water and my hair chestnut brown and a little curly, I have brown eyes, a pug nose, my mouth is neither small nor big rather medium, my lips are a little thick, my ears are a little big, but it is that this way that my grandfather had them, my lashes are big and curly, my skin is light brown. I like animals a lot, in my home I have 3 dogs and a turtle, I like to play ball with my dogs, I also like a lot to fish, my dad takes me very often.
I like to go to school because there I have many friends and thus I learn a lot about math and other subjects. Pedro en español

U. Nancy Ramirez mailto:[email protected]
Hello! I would like to be your friend and my favorite animal is the Chihuahua dog, I have many toys and I like to play with my sister with play dishes in my play house.
--
I am Nancy and I was born on August 5, 1997 and I am sort of skinny and I like burritos and barbecue tacos and I like to play with dolls and my mom's name is Juana, my dad's name is Tomás, my sisters' names are Yadira and the other one's name is Tomy, and I have a dog, and my uncle's name is Abel and my aunt's name is Nicolasa and my favorite color is purple. Nancy en español

V. Gemma Roldan mailto:[email protected]
Dear readers, I want to be your penpal and your friend. I want to know you if you are from that country or from somewhere else. I would like that you be my friends, I leave you my name Gemma. My school is very beautiful, I was born in 1988. And I want to know you in person. I want to go to your country and to know you in person and not through letters. And I believe that we will be good friends. And I want to know where you were born. I want to know which animals there are there in your
country. Here there are many beautiful things, such as beautiful people, nature. My favorite sport is basketball and yours, which are your favorite sports?
--
I am Gemma Roldán. I was born November 02 of 1988. I don't have dogs nor cats; my favorite animal is the dog and the deer. My favorite food is pizza and enchiladas. My favorite sport is basketball. I have 2 sisters and two brothers, my sister's name is Jessica and she is 11 years old and she goes to 6th grade. My other sister's name is Jeanett and she is 7 years old and she goes to Second Grade. I am very sensitive and very short tempered.
My dad's name is Manuel and my mom's name is Lupe. My dad was born in 1959 and my mom in 1969. My brother the younger was born in 1994 and the older he was born in 1984. My favorite color is blue. I like to have friends. Gemma en español

W. Elisa Ruiz mailto:[email protected]
dear friends,
how are you, of one particular race or human?
Me, my name is Elisa. What are your names? I was born on June 5, 1989. I want to know how you are, how old you are, how many brothers you have or how many sisters you have. Are you white or black or light brown as me I am? Which favorite animals are or that you like? Which are your favorite flowers, of what ages are you? Of what color is your hair, black, blonde, or red? I want to know you, which meal it is your favorite one, favorite food, which is your favorite. Do you like to color? Do you like to study English or Spanish? I want that you come to my state, may you be pretty the girls and handsome the boys. Good-bye, Friends.
--
I am of medium size.
I have my hair nice and short.
my mom's name is Liliana G.A
my dad's name is Raúl R. A.
my brother's name is Raúl.
my brother's name is Felipe. Elisa en español

Y. Fernando Solis         Click here to go to my page
I would like to know you and I was born in 1988; and you, how old are you? Which is your favorite animal? also how is your country? and also here there are many things; and there in your region are there many animals? and which is your favorite color? Why do you speak different? and which is your favorite sport?   Mine is basketball and baseball. And how is the weather in over there? Also, soccer is my favorite sport. And would you like to have a horse? And I like to swim in my pool. And do you know how to speak Spanish? and whether your school is different. And my favorite color is red. And are you separated? And which is your favorite color? do you have bicycle? a moto? or if not what is it that you have in your country? and a bear, or a deer, or a boar?
--
I am Fernando. I was born on November 18, 1988.   I am big, fat, and in my family there is my mom, me, my grandmother, my aunt Hilda, my uncle Javier, my grandfather, my cousin Eduardo. My cousin Eduardo was born in 1995. My aunt Hilda was born in 1967. My mom was born in 1970. I had a dog that was called Chepe but it died. My favorite game is soccer. My mom bought me a pool and I like to swim. My favorite food is hamburger and I like to eat corn flakes for breakfast and also baseball and basket, and also my grandmother was born in 1948. My grandfather was born in 1949 and my uncle Javier was born in 1983 and also I want to have a horse and to ride it. My favorite color is red. Fernando en español

FRIENDSHIP POEM Our favorite sports and games WHINY THE POODLE

"CAN U" send us your version of a Whiny the POOdle adventure? --- Sure you can! and with your permission we will publish it on this web site. Sent it to [email protected] ("Whiny the POOdle is inspired by "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne)

Whiny's adventures so far: Whiny Tumbleweed Whiny and Hee-Haw
Whiny's Thanksgiving Whiny and Santa Whiny and Pigtail
Whiny Tracks Shmoozles

Future adventures in search of an author (it could be YOU):
Tiny Tom Tells a Tall Tale of a Tail
Pigtail meets Half-A-Lump
Hee-Haw Gets a Present (and a Past and a Future, both Indicative and Subjunctive)
Walla Walla Walla and Baby Bye Come to the Desert
Cristina Roberts Leads an Ex-Perdition to Utter Bunkolia
Pigtail Is Engulfed in a Sandstorm
Cristina Roberts Joins the Majority Party
In the House, Hee-Haw Builds a Coagulation for Animal Writes
Cheeter Comes to the Desert and Fasts From Fast Food
Pigtail Nearly Meets the Other Half-A-Lump
Proof That Cheeters Don't Climb the Social Ladder
Wabbit Is ABZB
The POOdle Hunts New Game
Cheeter is Unfastened
Pigtail Makes a Grand
Who Found The Woollery
Cristina Roberts and Whiny Come to a Witching Well and We Wish Them Well (You may think this list exhausting, but it is not exhaustive: you are invited to send in your suggestions for other episodes.