AYP/BPYI - Day 1

Nairobi is Kenya's most cosmopolitan city, the former capital of British East Africa. At 8am we headed for Sarakasi Trust, Africa Yoga Project's home base in the City Center.

Baron presented a morning yoga session with 54 Kenyans in chairs and then on the mat. We had lunch watching an acrobatic and dance show with Paige's boyfriend as the DJ.

After lunch, the group split up to shadow the outreach teachers in the slums. My group was with the "Ghetto Girls" and we headed to the slum area where they live and teach. When we arrived at the hall, a meeting was taking place so we started walking through the slums towards some drumming. Wade was in my group and wanted to join in with the drumming and singing. We gathered up around a couple of kids singing, dancing and drumming. Wade joined the musicians and we all took turns with the Ghetto Girls teaching about 70 small children yoga in the dirt. We had our hands and bodies buried in the dirt - high, low, up dog, down dog...

The kid's are always so polite, screaming "How are you" and they run right up to hold your hand. You can't walk anywhere without kid's following you, grabbing your hand or waving with the biggest smiles!

For the second half of the afternoon we walked to another area of the slums and met with Baron's group. We assisted about 100 kids in the dirt.



It was getting dark, but before we left we visited one of the Ghetto Girls mom in her home. It was small with one bed, a bench and couple of chairs and a burner for cooking. Her house held 9 people, including 3 babies. Her mother was 30.

For our safety we needed to get out of the slums before dark. We left just after sunset and took vans back to the Ngong House for dinner and a meeting. (We never made it to bed prior to midnight on any night during our stay.)