Kirsten visits San Jose

As many of you know, Matt Malek has been in San Jose for nearly 7 months now. For the past 10 days, his girlfriend, Kirsten Nagel, came to visit and volunteer!

An excerpt from Matt's blog about her trip:
Prior to coming to San Jose, Kirsten translated “The Penguin Song” into Spanish, with the hope of teaching it to kids at the various San Jose schools. “The Penguin Song” is a camp-type song about how to walk like a penguin, i.e. right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg, move the head, turn in circles. It’s VERY catchy, and when sung and danced by two gringos, VERY entertaining.

So, we set up a visit to the San Jose Centro school and the Portillon school, and showed up to each with a whole program of education and fun.

We would start by reading a children’s book, Kirsten in Spanish and I in English. We were pleasantly surprised to find that ALL the kids, from Kindergarten through 6th grade, were absolutely entranced by this. After, we donated the books to the schools for the kids to read themselves.

Read more about their adventures in San Jose here, The Legend Comes to Town: http://www.sanjosepartners.org/whatwedo/mattsblog/