In the second chapter we really get a glimpse of what is in store for Eric and Mary. After hearing about Eric’s decision to find an Amish community and spend 18 months with them, I could only imagine what they were about to get themselves into. I also started to ponder the excitement that one would go through by knowing you were about to give up everything that you were once accustomed to and learn to survive another way. Unfortunately, it did not take that long for me to snap out of this dream when I thought about not being able to watch Monday night football.
During the second chapter, Eric starts to get his feet wet within Amish life. I found it really funny about the whole lawn cutting experience. Especially when he found out that the women are the ones who do this chore. A lesson was learned in this experience, with the fact that it isn’t always how strong or tuff you are in order to get a job done. It taught that when you use mental skills to do the same job there is a chance it becomes easier to do. Like when Eric learned how to adjust the blades on the manual lawn mower. Before he had to use brut force to cut the lawn and once he learned how to adjust the blades, cutting the lawn was like cutting through butter.
All in all, Eric and Mary seemed to be very excited and pleased with everything that is going on. They also seemed to be building a nice relationship with the Miller’s, whom seem to be a pretty close family. At the end of the chapter, I am starting to see how it isn’t only the machine that can get things done, but rather it is human interaction that makes one part a whole.
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Its true that a little mental help could help in labor intensive projects but they would have never been able to do those things without the help. I think theie main help comes from the Millers. I would have liket to see the experience without the help they have been getting
Women cut the lawn! I'm never moving there. I've never pushed a lawn mower in my life. You're right if he didn't figure out how to adjust the blades it would have been very hard to mow the whole thing. Also, he knew that there was going to be manual labor involved and that's why it was also easier, because he was expecting it.
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