We went,saw, visited, and ate.

Visiting some places in Cali

Some students have visited some of the places we have mentioned in class. Here there are the pictures they wanted to share with us.

Cali some years ago

Enjoy nice pictures about some important places of Cali, some years ago they looked very different.

Important places


Ver Santiago de Cali en un mapa más grande

Our grandparents visited us









Mariela Echeverry - César A. Sandoval



Ana Sofia Rodriguez 2A: The boys made kites and paper airplanes.
Juan José Parra 2A: The classes were: English, Literature, Math, Geometry, Science, and Language.
Nicolas Figueroa 2A: their customs were: go to the mass every Sunday wearing very elegant clothes and pray the “Rosario” every nigth.
Sofia Largacha 2A: Martina’s grandmother and Juan José’s grandfather told us about the school at their time, because it was very different. The punishments were: wear a hat with donkey ears, put their knees down on grains of corn under the sun with two bricks on their two hands.
María Luisa Gonzales Osorio2A: I learnt that my grandmother played “lleva”, hide and seek, “quemado, que pase el rey y a la pelota”.
Daniel Mantilla 2A: our grandparents’ life was different from no, at school they had hard punishments.
Juan Pablo Cañas 2A: they played jazz, jumping the rope and marbles.
Mariana Díez 2A: I am Mariana Díez and I have a grandmother, her name is Leonor Perez she is a very sweet person, when she was at school she had very strict teachers but she was a very good student.
Laura Romero 2A: Last Thursday, JUAN JOSE PARRA’s grandpa and MARTINA BUENO’s grandma told us how were their lives and schools, they had terrible punishments.
Martina Bueno 2A: With our grandparents we talked about their lives and how was Cali when they were children. I think the life of our grandparents was very different when they were young; some things were better and others too bad.
Cesar A. Sandoval,
He was a very naughty boy, he made us laugh very much; he had a lot of punishments. He liked to play “Quemado”.
Mariela Echeverry,
Her life was very good, she liked to play “Rayuela” and she went to a religious school.
Maria Juliana Garzon 2A: Streets were made with rocks. There were only two schools that taught English: San Luis Gonzaga and Colombo Británico. When my grandma Oliva finished the school day, she went to her house to do the homework and then she when to the kitchen to help cooking the lunch.
Valeria Araque 2A: They were punished putting their knees on corn seeds under the sunlight, they stood up in front of a wall for long time, and they had to use a donkey hat when he or she told a lie.
Maria Jose Carvajal 2B: What did my great-grandparents and grandmother do in their free time? Manuel wrote in his free time. Mercedes sewed, wrote and embroidered and Ma. Cristina made clothes for her dolls.







Jorge Jaramillo - Luis Carlos Vanegas

Nathalia Ochoa 2B: We learnt lot of things that our grandparents did long time ago.
Valeria Peréz 2B: my grandmother and her friends used to go to the country side during the weekend. My grandfather played soccer basketball and tennis. My grandfather and my grandmother got fun going to the river.
Juan José Jaramillo 2B: Our grandparents told us that at their time they played ‘’GOLOSA’’. My grandmother said me that she studied in a school of ‘’Nuns’’ and she played with dolls……..
Laura Sofía Quintero 2B: The grandparents told us that the girls played: dolls, ’’golosa’’, cooking, the cat and the mouse, and ball.
Ma. Camila Zapata 2B: Every family should be met in the table at the same hour to eat, at night they sat together to talk and listened to the radio.
Pedro Durán 2B: The schools of my grandparents were “internados”, they were schools of nuns. One game was the cat and the mouse; it was very funny and nice to play.
Ma. Camila Londoño 2B: On Friday afternoons sometimes the families went to the cinematographic in their cars. And on Sundays they went to the river.
Gustavo Enriquez 2B: In the “internados”, students went to visit their parents only during the weekend. Many school at their time were Christians.
Valentina Luna 2B: In Social Studies class we talked about our grandparents. So they came to school to let us know about their school lives. They studied the whole day in the school.
Andres Mauricio2B: Children at school were hit with a ruler.

The good old days

Our grandparents represent a very important resource to know about how was Cali long time ago, the family customs, and the school life at their time. This information helps our second graders to be touched by their grandparents’ childhood, and compare the big differences they can find with their lives and nowadays life style.

One day enjoying the city where we live...

Ma. José Carvajal and Melissa Cadavid: We enjoyed this tour because we could sisit many places, and saw that Mariamulata is a big bird, Jovita used many things, and we saw bulls and horses in the Plaza de Toros.

Ma. Juliana Garzón y Valeria Araque: We saw: El Puente de los bomberos, the Cali river, the Miami fountaine. We visited: Museo arqueológico La Merced, Museo del oro, Las canchas Panamericanas.

Mariana Diez y María Luisa González: We felt very good because we knew more about Cali, we knew more places and we understood more about the history of Cali. Sandra thanks for these interesting things.

Martina Bueno and Ana Sofía Rodriguez: We went around Cali and we had a lot of fun. We visited la Merced and archeological museum; we saw a mummy and a lot of handicrafts of the indigenous. We also went to the Gold museum; we saw a cacique and a lot of gold. We saw the Municipal Theater, it is yellow and big.

Juan José Parra and Nicolas Figueroa: We saw some theaters like Jorge Isaacs and the Municipal. We felt good because we visited some theaters and some museums.

Juan Pablo Cañas and Daniel Mantilla: We went to a tour around Cali, we saw: Jovita Feijó, The Cat of the river, Mariamulata, la Fuente Miami, la Fuente de la Discordia, El monument o a la Infancia, the Metal bird. We had a good experience because we didn’t know those monuments.

Laura Romero, Sofía Largacha and Juana Whitaker: We visited la Merced museum, the Gold museum, San Antonio church and we also went to eat ‘’cholado’’. We felt that we were in another country because we didn’t know that part of my city.