A visit to Amish Family

A Visit to an Amish Community
Emad Arnous,
After hearing about the Amish lifestyle in the class in the university of Delaware, I had the opportunity to visit an Amish community in Pennsylvania.
Wow! I was very impressed when I first visited an Amish family. They live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I was visiting the families with my colleagues from Jordan and Morocco.
"We visited one of the biggest Amish communities in the Lancaster area. There were huge farms with houses and lots of land. I learned they didn't have any electricity in their houses."
I was very glad to know and see the Amish life style in their farms, and also I had seen the cows, the deer, the chicken. I wanted to see how they live together and find out if it is an easy life or not.
While we were buying bread, cheese, honey, yoghurt, and other handmade gifts, I noticed that the woman selling the bread was wearing interesting clothes. I had never seen anybody wearing that kind of clothes in real life. She was wearing a blue-colored, old-fashioned dress which didn't have any buttons, and there were many straight pins on the back of her dress to hold it together, with a very lovely hat. I hoped I would see more how the Amish live.
By going to another farm, we visited one of the biggest Amish communities in the Lancaster area. There were huge farms with houses and lots of land. I learned they didn't have any electricity in their houses. They don't use modern things, so you see no electric wires around the houses.

While we were there, I saw a man in his carriage of two horses. Again I noticed their clothing because all of them were wearing the kind of very lovely clothing , I didn't try to talk with them because I thought they might not want me to talk to them. In the community,
"The life style of the Amish might be simple and seem to be inconvenient; however, I feel they are really living in a way that respects nature, unlike us."
I saw children who were playing around a horse. Although they didn't play with any of the usual commercial toys which children usually like to play with, these children looked very lively and happy.
The life style of the Amish might be simple and seem to be inconvenient; however, I feel they are really living in a way that respects nature, unlike us. We tend to separate nature and use power to control it. It is very difficult for us who are accustomed to living comfortably with modern conveniences. We use an air conditioner when it is hot. When we want to contact someone, we use the telephone. When we want to write something, we can use computers.

I think we need to notice how we are a part of nature. I believe the Amish people have recognized this. All the family members work hard, all of them cooperate for their land, It might be impossible for me to live in the Amish community, but maybe it would be good to live with fewer modern conveniences.