Gayle Tales: Breaking English

What is it about the Amish that is so fascinating?

Is it the simplicity of their lives that attracts us?
Do we long for a little more of that in our lives?

Do we try to understand how they can live
the way they do in this modern world?

Or do we love to get glimpses into their minds
to try to understand how they think and feel?

One of my favorite movies of all time is "Witness".
It is the story of what happens when a young Amish
boy traveling with his mother witnesses a murder.
An "English" detective goes undercover at their
Amish home to protect them and ends up falling
in love with the boys mother, the beautiful Rachel Lapp.

This is my favorite scene in the movie...

There is a new TV Series that began this fall called "Breaking Amish".

This reality show follows 5 young Amish/Mennonite men and women as they leave their plain lifestyle to explore and English way of life in New York City.

My daughter, Kerry, and her friends have been faithfully watching this fall, and the series finale was Sunday night. They watched it together.

To make the evening fun, they decided to break from their "English" way of dressing and dress like Amish girls instead!

So they went from this...