Memories and collections

MEMORIES OF THE PAST When I was a child, I used to spend some time on the beach in summer.

In the afternoon, I used to go to the park and I would play with my friends.

Then, in winter time, on Sunday evenings, I remember I used to read books with my mother. After that, we would go to my grandmother’s and we used to eat some biscuits.

When I was four years old, I started skiing: I used to go to Somport. Later, when I was eight, approximately, I used to go to Candanchú. Then my father would help me with my heavy skis.

However, now I go to Astún where I always meet my friends and we ski a lot! And my father doesn´t help me with my skis anymore!

When I was younger, I remember that I was in Jaca Summer School (a group that does many activities like sports, excursions, etc.). We used to go to the swimming pool at the end of every morning and almost always I would go swimming. Nowadays, I don't go to the Summer School because it is for children.

When I was five, I used to go to the park on Fridays, in the evening. After that, my grandfather would buy some chips for me.

When I was 10, I used to go to the park with my parents, in the evenings. Then, they would buy some pop-corn for me and my friends. On winter evenings, I used to go to my grandmother´s home and we would see a film together with my cousins and my grandmother used to make some hot-chocolate for us….it was delicious!

But I have the best memories of all about my grandfather’s dogs; we used to give them their special food and my grandpa wouldn’t let us give them any other kind of food that wasn’t special for dogs: he looks after his dogs as if they were his own sons!

Afterwards, we used to take them for a little walk. However, it would take us a long time because those dogs used to run very quickly so we had to go panting behind them if we didn’t want to let them leave our land and cross the fence of our neighbours.

Growing up When I was child I used to go to my village every Saturday with my family.

There, we would have lunch with my grandparents. I liked it because my grandmother used to cook delicious food!

After having lunch, I used to play with my cousin: we would pretend to be a teacher or a hairdresser. We also used to draw pictures, we wouldn’t draw very well but we didn´t care!

Now my cousin and I prefer staying in Jaca on Saturday afternoons and going out with our friends.

Picking and Collecting When I was only a child, some five or six years old…

I recall that in autumn, I used to go for a walk with my father and my two brothers to look for some mushrooms and /or chestnuts because my father loves picking mushrooms.

My brothers and I used to compete for who would pick more chestnuts while my father would pick mushrooms because he knew which were poisonous and which not. We would only pick these ones!

After that, my mum would cook them for dinner and when the food was prepared, we all would sit together at the table. I remember that the chestnuts used to be very hot and I always got burnt!

And now, when I smell of a chestnut stall, it always reminds me of when I was six.

When I was a child, I used to collect lots of things, but specially, I recall I used to keep leaves and flowers from all seasons: autumn, winter, spring and summer.

Then, I would order and glue them in a red notebook (it was my favourite notebook!). However, I didn’t use to show it to anybody, because it was my “secret”: I used to hide it in a little box in my bedroom.

I used to love it!

When I was younger, I used to play in the park with my friends and I would collect flowers and after that, in my house I would put them it in a beautiful box. When the flowers were dry I did a drawing of them. It´s very entertaining and it´s a nice form to decorate the walls.

What about you? Did you use to collect something?