You're on vacation in rural Ohio on your way to your bed and breakfast when your GPS loses signal and you take a wrong turn down a dirt road. You start to notice the modern looking farm buildings but there are no electric poles with electricity running to these quaint farms. The next thing you know you are passed by a black buggy driven by a muscular horse and you think to yourself that the gentleman driving with his plain black hat, white shirt, black trousers and a full beard must be from back in time. It suddenly occurs to you, reading your favorite Amish books by Beverly Lewis, that you must be in old-order Amish country, where society lives in the modern world but isn't up to modern standards. What has always interested me about the Amish is the Rumspringa of the young people, the different Amish sects that are there and what everyday life is like. The Amish are Anabaptist, which means they believe that you can only be baptized when you are old enough to understand what being part of the Amish community means and can entail. Numerous Amish sects do not allow teenagers to participate in Rumspringa and those who do, don't actually "allow" it, they simply turn a blind eye to it a bit, as well as making sure they are still following the guidelines of their Ordnung . Rumspringa is a term used for Amish people who turn a blind eye to children who are coming of age from age 16 and up to about age 18 and have not yet been baptized into the church. The Ordnung are the rules and traditions they follow as a society and are part of their religion. During this time, some Amish teens will drive a car, see a movie, and try alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and other "worldly" things. But, from some… middle of the paper… Amish and Mennonite culture. I would love to one day visit a town where the Amish reside and get to know them one on one, which is not an easy thing to accomplish as “worldly English.” It would be interesting for me to experience a simple lifestyle one day, and maybe even living in a Mennonite type environment would be fun. Their family life is very fascinating to me and I think the thing I like the most is the simple way of life they live. Works Cited The Beachy Amish Mennonites. April 5, 2014. .Wittmer, Joe. Religious freedom of the Amish. 5 April 2014. . http://amishamerica.com/whats-the-difference-between-new-order-and-old-order-amish/ http://www.jamesportmissouri.org/jca_018.htmhttp://www.exploring-amish- country.com/amish-rumspringa.html