Mr. Canu's 1997-98 bilingual 3rd grade's
20 Curious Kids'
WEEKEND FUN
in the El Paso – Juarez international border area
revised 9804296

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A. Cristina Arreola         [email protected]
    What I do on weekends to have fun is to go to soccer with my brother and my dad and also to play with my cousin and her friend and also I skate with my neighbor. The skates have four wheels. I like to go out with my family and go to the Golden Corral steak house and to go to Peter Piper Pizza.
   I also like to go to the movies, to visit my cousin Angel, we take him to see soccer, I go with my mom and dad also with my brother and my cousins and we rent movies, we buy potato chips to see the movies.


Martha Irene Cárdenas            [email protected]
    When we leave home on a weekend and go to Juarez, I go up on the roof of the house and I like that very much, always when we stay in Juarez I like to go on the roof.
    Me when I went to Zaragoza that was fun because it was the birthday of my brother and he turned 7 and I drank orange soda ... and I get together with my cousins and we go to the market to buy things and I had fun with all my cousins. Me I like to go to the swimming pool of Juarez and it is called The Mammoth because they let you stay as long as you want and I go there on Saturdays and Sundays and also because we asked permission and Elisa goes with me only two times.


D. Alfredo Cardona Jr.           [email protected]
 On Sundays I go to the mountains and we walk up and then we run down and as they are sloping, well when we go down we do cartwheels on the ground. What I do when I have weekends I go to Jesus Martin's home to play soccer with our little brothers Abraham and Luis Carlos, I and Martin we are one team and Abraham and Luis Carlos ace another team  when we are finished playing soccer we play Sega cassette Sonic and Tails then after playing Sega we go outside to use the bicycles than my mom comes for us then when we go we start playing soccer I and Abraham then we put on shorts and we get wet with the water pistols them we go to our grandparents' and I play with my cousins. And last of all we go to my aunt's to jump with my El Paso cousins on the trampoline because I have cousins in Juarez and in El Paso.
    To have fun I go to my cousins' to play and to go shopping and to go to our friends in Juarez to play soccer.
    To have fun I also like to go to my El Paso cousin's and go to his swimming pool and to jump on the trampoline after having been in the pool.


E. Liliana Zulema Carrillo             [email protected]
    One of my best weekends that I had was that we went to my uncles' and they live in El Paso proper and we spent all the night there and also we went to the circus of El Paso and we had a lot of fun.
    Another thing i like to do on the weekends is go my uncle's to play with my cousins and we play with Barbies, and basketball, and soccer. I like to go and practice cheerleader at the high school.
    I like to do gardening and plant strawberries and melons and watermelons.
    My dream weekend in El Paso would be to go to Western Playland and go on many rides. And also we'll go to the circus to see the elephants and also we'llgo to Big8. Also we'll have fun at the movies and we'll see the movie of the Spice Girls. Also we'll go to my grandma's and we'll go to church to pray because my grandpa had died like not long ago.
    Western Playland is a place where we can go to walk around and also if you want to go on the rides you have to buy a lot of tickets so that you can get on many rides.
    Big8 is a store where they sell food and candy and soft drinks and we buy a cake, donuts, soft drinks, and candy, and then we go home real late at night and then we'll brush our teeth and go to sleep.


F. Marco Antonio Ceballos         [email protected]
    I have fun playing soccer with my cousin and my brother. An also playing Sega and Sega Saturn. On Monday we went to Western Playland and Saturday we go to Western Playland. I ride my bicycle. And we go to the mountains with the motorcycles the other day we went to a big mountain and we went down with the motor off and one goes fast with the motorcycle. me I would like to go to school on Saturdays and on Sundays to school. And me I like to go to the pizza with my mom.


G. Julio Cesar Eggenhafer          mailto:[email protected]
    My best weekends are to go to Western Playland and to go on an off-road motorcycle.
    Western Playland is a park that has many electronic rides. Me I like to go on the rollercoaster it is called El Bandido, and on the Nest, the Nest are some spheres that fly in the air.


H. Xochitl Favela             mailto:[email protected]
    If someone reads this and comes to visit El Paso there will have fun like they never had if they go swimming in the pool named Pavo Real. If they go to Juarez ther can go to the Red Hill (Loma Colorada) and go up to the top and come down running and it feels fantastic.
    When the weather is warm I go to the swimming pool and learn how to swim. Sometimes I go to Peter Piper Pizza and play in the games with the dollar that my mom gives me and eat pizza (my favorite is pepperoni). I go to Juarez to the circus. There I go to the mountains and climb up to the top and then go down running. I go to the parks and there I play with my brothers on the swings.


J. Jesús Martín Frias         mailto:[email protected]
    Me I don't like it when there is no school. I like to go to school because I get bored at home because I don't do anything at home because at school I can get many friends together and at home one can almost not get friends together and at school we can play soccer with many children and at home only with some four children...
    But I like to go to Western Playland on weekends because there is a big swimming pool and there are games to play and in one place there is a big slide and the big kids go diving and the little ones cannot go up because it is really deep and there is a children's slide and there is a little pool for babies and sometimes they put a trampoline but they have to pay one dollar and there is a whale and the children can  get into the whale.


K. Ixtzel García           mailto:[email protected]
    On the weekends I play with my sisters. We go to the swings ansd then I go shopping with my mom. My dad takes me to buy the things I need. Then my aunts come and I play tag or on the swings with my cousins. I play in the playhouse that my dad has bought me. Sometimes I go to the fair.
    My best weekend is when I go to Fiesta Roller with my family and also to the baptism of my baby sister.


L. Corina González          mailto:[email protected]
One of my best weekend funs is to go and see movies.
Also to go to the zoo to see the animals.
Or to go to the circus when it is open.
Another is to go to my aunt's to play with my cousins.
Another is to go to the pizza because I can eat and play.
Another is to go to the pool in El Paso and go down the slides to get into the pool and swim.
Another is to go to skate to Roller King in El Paso.
Or to go to sightsee in Juarez, our Mexican twin city.
Another is to go to my friends' homes to play.
Another is to go to the park to play on the swings and slides. 

M. Perla González           mailto:[email protected]
    My best ways of having fun on the weekends are to go to the pizza and play with the games that they have also to go to my aunt's and play with my cousins and also to the parks that there is and get on the swings and the other games and also to go to the fairs that there is sometimes in San Elizario and I get onto the rides that there is in the fairs. And I always get on them with Corina at the fairs and sometimes with my little cousins.
    And what I would like best to do on a weekend in El Paso and Juárez would be to go skating, to visit the zoo, also to the circus when it is open. Also to go to visit our friends, uncles, aunts, or cousins, go shopping, go swimming, or to Western Playland. I'd like to go to some of these places on a weekend because they seem like a lot of fun to me. And I would also like to invite my friends to my home and play with the Monopoly or other games. And also to go to the museums and see the things that are in the museum. Those are the places to which I would like to go on a weekend.


N. Mayra Licon          mailto:[email protected]
    To visitors to El Paso I would recommend going to Western Playland because it is a lot of fun because it has many rides. They can also go to Wet N' Wild Water World because they can swim and they can play in the water with a ball. They could also visit the ancient sites.
    What I like to do on the weekends is I like to ride my bicycle and to ride one of my horses, the one I like best to ride is Beauty because she does does what I tell her. I like to play football with my big brothers and my sister and Nintendo 64 with my sister and sometimes with my brothers. I like to play tennis and to play golf. I am a girs but I like to play what the boys play because the girls only play with dolls and things like that.


P. José Magallon         mailto:[email protected]
On the weekends when it is warm I like to go into the irrgation ditch with my cousins to swim and to dive. I like to play with a top.


Q. Manuel Marquez     mailto:[email protected]
    The things that I like to do on weekends is to go on the bicycle, play football, play Nintendo 64, go on o motorcycle, also ride wild horses, go to the park, go to the sand dunes because you can go on a motorcycle and ride with the motor off it feels good.
    Perhaps what I like best of all is to go to the swimming pool because it has a slide and the slide has a lot of water and it has curves and you feel like you are going to fall out but you don't fall out because there is like a net that keeps you in and in this manner until you get to where the water is. Floor number 4 of the pool is the deepest and went you go in there you stay a long time before coming out.


R. Hector Mendoza         mailto:[email protected]
    My fun weekends in El Paso are when we go to Wet-and-Wild to go on the rides and to let go of some ropes and you let go and you fall into the water and there is a waterfall, there is a wall of a blue whale and you slide and you hit your head. And there are games and you go up into a tree and you can buy clothes because the tree is a store and you wait and some men come for you and take you to the swimming pool and there is a little room with games and you have to ask permission from your parents to go to the deep part because you could drown.
    I go to the pizza to eat and I like the pepperoni pizza and I go and play with the games and my mom gives me 15 dollars.
    On a weekend in Juarez I like to go to my cousins' to play football in the street and to play Sega the game of Toy's Tory and the game of Dragon Ball Z2 and to see the movie of Dragon Ball Z3 and to eat ice cream and hot pepper popsicles.


S. Pedro Luis Muñoz            mailto:[email protected]
What I like best is the movies because they show many cool movies.
To go to the zoo because it has many animals, it has tigers, wolves, snakes, turtles, big ostriches, crocodiles and other animals.
Go skating in Juarez.
Something else I do on my best weekends is to go to a park to play, go to the mountain and it has a road you go up and there is a lookout point with telescopes and if you put a quarter in you can see the whole city.
You can go to the desert to hunt rabbits.
I go with my cousins and we play football.
Also we go to see the model airplanes fly, some men have model airplanes and they make them go in circles... things like that.


U. Nancy Ramirez            mailto:[email protected]
    What I do on my best weekends to have fun is that me on the weekends I like to go to my uncles' and to play school with my cousins because my cousins have a lot of books.
    Me what I would like to do in my vacations is to the circus of Juarez and the name of that circus is Roncali International Circus because I can see the animals such as elephants, clowns, musicians, trapeze artists.


V. Gemma Roldan           mailto:[email protected]
    Me I like to go to the swimming pool because one can dive and one can jump from the trompoline. That pool is in Fabens and also outside the poo there's a playground with games and also in front of the playground there's another playground and thre are games but when the pool isn't open in the playground there's a machine that throws water and with the water one can play and you can get wet. When there is no water you can play soccer.
    Also you can go to the Peter Piper Pizza of the Avenue of the Americas. And you can eat pizza with black olives and pepperoni. And I like to play with the games there.
    I would also like to go to Ruidoso on a weekend and the next weekend go to the pizza. I like Ruidoso because there are many cabins there and there is a lot of oxygen and besides that there are flowers and grazing land and at night the bears come out and in other places (like here) there are not many trees neither are there any bears nor grazing land.


W. Elisa Ruiz         mailto:[email protected]
    Me on weekends I go to visit my parents and my siblings and I ride my bicycle almost the whole day with my cousin and my siblings around the house we go. Or sometimes we go on the swings and we play sisters and my dog was the driver and sometimes I go to play with my friend Brenda Vazquez. and also we go to the park and we go skating and we ride our bicycles and on the swings and on the see-saw.
    We can also go to Fiesta Roller to skate and we can compete and play and there is a really big slide and when you slide it seems like a mountain and there's the Flintstones' game and a more or less small waterfall and you play volleyball and basketball.


Y. Fernando Solis         mailto:[email protected]
    I go to my cousin's home and we go on his motorbike and on my go-cart and this weekend we are going to do the same always we are going to do the same.
    And for a really cool weekend we could go to Wet N' Wild and also we could go to Western Playland and also to the swimming pool called Pavo Real.

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