Today we visited the Yoder Amish Farm. Through
this farm, we were able to take a step backwards in time.
We were able to see actual people living and working much as they did in the early to late 18
00's. In 
comparison, do you think life was more pleasant for the Amish or the early settler in Northwest Ohio? What is the difference in the construction between the homes built in this area and the homes in the Amish area? What do you think of students only attending school only until the 8th grade? Would you like your teacher to 
teach you barefoot? How strongly does religion affect the Amish? How strongly do you think religion affected the people who settled this portion of Ohio? How did people preserve their food? Do you think those methods would work as well today? What a wonderful experience we had touching, feeling, smelling and tasting history!
this farm, we were able to take a step backwards in time.
We were able to see actual people living and working much as they did in the early to late 18
00's. In 
comparison, do you think life was more pleasant for the Amish or the early settler in Northwest Ohio? What is the difference in the construction between the homes built in this area and the homes in the Amish area? What do you think of students only attending school only until the 8th grade? Would you like your teacher to 
teach you barefoot? How strongly does religion affect the Amish? How strongly do you think religion affected the people who settled this portion of Ohio? How did people preserve their food? Do you think those methods would work as well today? What a wonderful experience we had touching, feeling, smelling and tasting history!
You are right Dorinda, what a day we lived in with those folks. There we learned that the Amish are Christian religious denominations that form a very traditional subgrouping of Mennonite churches, which are best known for their simple living, plain dress and resistance to the adoption of many modern conveniences. This movement began due its leader named Jakob Ammann. In the early 18th century, many Amish emigrated to Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Now, talking about the differences in the construction between the homes built in Northwest Ohio and the homes in the Amish area we noticed that in the exterior, both seem very similar, but the big differences are inside, such as its simple way of living without the facilities of the modern life, the dorms of the children are upstairs, while the parent's bedroom is located downstairs. One reason because children get formal education until 8th grade is because during those 9 years of school they learn all the basic skills necesary to develop the all works needed by the Amish community such as carpinter, teacher, and farmer, just to mention a few. As we know, they still use traditional methods in the way how they cook their food and preserve them. These methods, altough seem like have nothing to do with religion, are strictly attached to their beliefs, but the important thing is that work well nowadays.
ReplyDeletewell, I believe that they like to live them life. Also they don't want to bother anyone. I think they are enjoing thier life. Although, I think they don't want to bother anyone and they don't like to be in a war. As we said in our class, the are kind of pacifists. They are traying to live thier own way. I think if my teacher is going to teach me with a barefoot. It's going to be nice way to teach us because it will make him/her feel relax and teach us as well.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Amish house was good for their lives - the dimension of the house was pretty big, most of the rooms were very neat. We heard that there were 8 grades in the school. In short, it was awful! If i were a member of the Amish people, I would not be able to endure it. Although the teacher was very young, they had to respect him/her. I saw the canning jars on the fence, which they used to use when they usually dried some food. It looks filthy but I think maybe they had no choice.
ReplyDeleteHank! I thought the same thing at first, but guess the internal temperature of the glass could reach very high temperatures due to the refraction from the botom part of the jar.
ReplyDeleteManuel, I agree that nowadays the houses look just about the same. But I then thought about the exterior of the log cabin in comparison. I think the log cabin in general was much smaller and people had no privacy...or not much privacy. When considering cooking, I noticed that the Wolcott house still had the fire to cook over, whereas, the Johanas house had a stove instead of a fireplace to cook with....
ReplyDeleteAnwar...should I teach in barefeet? lol
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese nation includes more than50 national minorities besides the Hans. Some of them live in some areas which like Amish country. They have very different cultures, different custom. For me it is hard to understand that, on the other hand, for them it is also difficult to understand us. But the world is wonderful; it should have a lot of different cultures.
ReplyDeleteFor me I think I can't stay in Amish country for a long time because their music is totally different than what I am studying. Music is my second life.
Hank, unfortunately, I didn't go with your guys that day, but I know you are very enjoying Amish country from your comment. I am very interested in the 8 grades school you have written for your comment, hope I can go there in the future.
ReplyDeleteHan Tao! How interesting...I was wondering are the people who live in the areas of China that are like the Amish, are these people religious like the Amish or do they just want to live simply? Han Tao, I think you are right about the music because they have no musical instruments. They do sing beautifully, however. My heritage is very similar and we had no piano in the church until I was 12 years old, and it was a huge debate whether or not to have that piano in the church. We did learn to sing harmony and Sunday morning was wonderful because the music was sung in four part harmony! Spectacular! Learning to read music was just part of our education.
ReplyDeleteYoder's Amish Farm is beautiful area. I heard about some people like to live as old time. They surrounded by some of beautiful farm land.
ReplyDeleteI think they have a good life. Amish is like country in its natural. Amish Scenes just living the simple life. They provide their own formal education or religious at home that was wonderful thing I heard or saw about them.