INTERVIEWER 1: Would you know who John Lennon was?
LEAH: John. INTERVIEWER 2: How about Marilyn Monroe?
ANDREW: Marilyn Monroe. INTERVIEWER 1: JFK?
BECKY: Doesn't really ring any bells.
(GUITAR PLAYING)
LEAH: We are the Amish. You know us,
as the people who don't drive cars, who favor log beards,
and wide brim pats. And enjoy barn raising.
But you've almost certainly never heard of rumspringa.
(WHIP LASH)
In our language, Rumspringa means running around
and for some, it's the most critical time of their life.
Before being baptized into the Amish Church,
Rumspringa gives Amish teenagers, a chance to visit the outside world.
Trying out activities that are normally forbidden.
My name is Leah Miller. Me and my brother, Andrew,
and three Amish friends from the Mid-West of America
are bidding farewell to our families and setting off
on a once in a lifetime adventure to Great Britain.
(HARD MUSIC)
We're going to be living with four very different types
of British teenagers. I've never really met people that
I had a lot to do with that we're black.
Sharing our God fearing and clean living values.
JERRY: They don't believe that Jesus is the son of God.
They believe in some other guy. SPEAKER 1: What of she'd meet up
with another man and she'd just not wanna come back home?
SPEAKER 2: It's a worry of the possibility of being molested.
BECKY: I read about extreme activity like this, I guess.
And I think my family seems far away. LEAH: I wonder what we'll discover
and whether the experience would make us rethink
our Amish way of life. LEON: I'm not hoping
to get way out of hand over there, but it's pretty much
my last chance to do something like that.
BECKY: Jesus will be coming back before too long.
Because of the way things are going in the world.
It's just terrible.
(DISTANT CHATTER)
SPEAKER 3: Now, it's time to say goodbye to Andrew
and Leon for a while.
And we must always be mindful to pray for them
while they're gone.
(SPIRITUAL MUSIC PLAYS)
Keep your hands over this group. and especially over our children,
as they step forth into a new venture.
LEON: I really don't know anything about England.
Some people were telling me that drug were legal.
Just a little concerned about it. ANDREW: I will take my German Bible,
and then my regular study Bible. And I wanna take this.
I wanna take this along too. Being is something I enjoy doing.
JERRY: Now, here should be everything I need.
It feels great to have a passport. Feels like fredom.
(SPIRITUAL SONG CONTINUES)
# Now is the time
# Redeeming man-kind
# Take up the cross and (INAUDIBLE) #
SPEAKER 3: Bye.
# Suffer the loss
# Gone is only a few #
LEAH: None of us, have ever flown before
and this will be the first time we've left our families
and our home-country of America. We're about to face the unknown.
All we can do is put our trust in God's hands.
(SPIRITUAL SONG PLAYS)
# For the spirit of heaven
# Has lift up your voice to God #
Everything is really, really small.
It's hard to believe we're this far away from the ground.
ANDREW: I think it's pretty awesome out there.
SPEAKER 3: 1 Peter 5:8, be sober, be vigilant,
because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion,
waketh about seeking whom he may devour.
(BEEP) AIR HOSTESS: Ladies and gentlemen,
the Captain has turned on, the fasten seatbelt sign.
Please return to your seat and fasten your seatbelt.
Thank you.
LEAH: We're gonna spend seven days in London.
It's gonna be our first time to experience a capital city.
ANDREW: I bet we're gonna see a lot of that
and hear a lot of that. JERRY: Yeah.
BECKY: It's gonna be ringing in our dreams.
Lots of noise. ANDREW: Lots of noise, yap.
BECKY: I'll probably survive for a week but I wouldn't want to live here.
LEAH: We'll be staying with a group of teenagers
from the South of the City. We're hoping
they would show us what city life is really like.
(CHATTER)
There isn't space for all of us to stay in one house,
so we're splitting up. The Amish boys are staying with Ryan.
RYAN: This is Jerry. SPEAKER: Hi, Jerry.
RYAN: This is Leon. SPEAKER: Hi, Leon.
RYAN: And this is... ANDREW: Andrew.
SPEAKER: (CROSSTALK) Hi, Andrew.
LEAH: And us girls are staying with Sabrina.
JULIE: I've been tiding up, especially for you.
(CROSSTALK) SPEAKER 4: So really,
make yourselves at home. Eat and drink to your heart's content.
The alcohol is mine though. (LAUGHTER).
You can't touch none of that. JERRY: OK.
LEAH: We've never seen such small and cramped houses.
Back home, we have big family,
so we need spacious homes. We have a communal room,
were we all eat together, and a quiet room,
where we read the Bible. Sometimes, there's a school room
for teaching the younger members of the family.
And a washing room for cleaning our clothes.
Our bedrooms are large. And some of us don't have curtains.
That's just the way it is. Our lives are about space and calm.
JULIE: This is Sabrina's room. SABRINA: This is my room.
JULIE: Her little box room, is only a tiny room.
BECKY: Really small. SABRINA: These pictures,
are from when I used to do modeling when I was little.
SPEAKER: OK. SABRINA: So, there's me
when I was about nine. I was about five there.
This is me and Amy in Paris. There's Ryan as well.
BECKY: When he was little. SABRINA: (CROSSTALK) that's my brother.
BECKY: So when did you start? How old were you?
SABRINA: When I got my first job, I was three and a half.
BECKY: Oh, wow. LEAH: That is cute.
AMY: In the Amish community is there any modeling
that goes on? LEAH: I don't think,
I ever heard about people. BECKY: I guess because the Amish
(INAUDIBLE) cloth anyway. So, and they're not like,
as much into fashion. Actually they don't follow fashion at all.
So I guess, it's quite unnecessary. LEAH: We don't do it.
BECKY: It's not an Amish thing.
LEAH: Our new British friends want to show us Amish,
a game they call, Rounders in their local park.
SABRINA: Do you know how to play rounders?
ANDREW: Like ball, (CROSSTALK).
SABRINA: Becky, you can be with Ryan and Tunde.
We're gonna be filled in. Too low.
Oh, that was close. (LAUGHTER)
LEAH: I've never really met people that I had to do with that were black.
And then we really got close to them as far as,
personally getting to know them really well,
and spending a lot of time with them. But I look forward to doing that.
I think it's interesting.
SPEAKER 5: We're doing good guys.
SABRINA: He's gonna hit it far, isn't he?
Oh my God, you better be ready to run guys.
Are you craxy?
Can you even catch? RYAN: They said (INAUDIBLE) game
(INAUDIBLE) better than us. I'm going out first.
I'm not playing no more. I'm upset (LAUGHS)
JERRY: Nice hit. SPEAKER 6: I thought they'd be
quite reserved but quiet people,
but quite (INAUDIBLE), quite friendly.
Yeah, like what they're wearing is like, is nothing unusual,
nothing we haven't really seen before.
Obviously, it's not the stylish of clothing,
ANDREW: (INAUDIBLE) city people, they might,
you know, be scared of bugs and things like that.
Where country people are used to. I mean, it's (INAUDIBLE)
things like that they don't... they're used to having
life pretty easy.
RYAN: For now, they're alright, they haven't really seen anything.
So far, we've only been like, in a park,
this is probably what they're used to see a lot of green.
Probably when we show them our things that we do,
is when they might start to get a bit, "What's that?"
LEAH: Hear in London, we're learning about
British teenage city life. It's a little different
to things back home. Tuks, one of our new British friends,
wants to show us what he calls his estate.
TUKS: Every building here, have been involved in something.
We had good times for, I think, good times lasted
probably one summer. After that, the flats began.
This was our hotspot. Just near there,
a friend of mine was stabbed. She was at the wrong place
at the wrong time. I'm not even sure
how many times she was stabbed but it was a lot of times.
And she was killed. JERRY: I never heard of an Amish person
doing a crime. LEAH: A disagreement might come up,
you know, killing wasn't an option. JERRY: If they do get,
even caught just taking a piece of candy from (INAUDIBLE)
or something, they'll get taught that
that's not right. TUKS: Alright, this was actually,
I'm not too sure of the destination, I think it was across that side
behind this building. A young man was shot in his head.
I knew the boy, I knew his mother, I knew his friends, his family.
There's alcohols who live all over the place.
There's rapists, there's drug addicts, everywhere.
BECKY: When I think of my childhood, I think of sunny days,
and fields and flowers and birds nests and,
because I was very much an outdoor girl.
I love to be outside with my dad. And just, you know,
you saying like, right over there somebody got stabbed.
And he was like right over here, you know, somebody got shot and killed.
Is really kind of creepy.
LEAH: In our Amish homes, we're always working hard.
Busy doing chores. But the young people we're staying with,
pass their time at home in a very different way.
JERRY: We really haven't done much. They're playing video games
but I find that boring. I'd rather be out doing something
that's active. At home, we can go out in the barn,
and work in the barn, or stuff like that.
Here there is no barn. RYAN: (INAUDIBLE) the girls
are saying, she goes to bed like,
everyday at 10:30 and wakes up at like 6:00.
Whereas me, I couldn't tell you what time I go to bed.
Imma go to bed like, one day I might go 12:00am
one day I might go 4:00 in the morning. Another day
I might go 9:00 at night, you know. SPEAKER 7: You know,
you can sleep in till 12:00, 2:00 in the afternoon.
But with them, it's sort of, everyday is a routine,
routine, routine. SPEAKER 6: Yeah, they seem to relaxed.
That's all I can say really. That's a good word for it, relaxed.
Chilled out, doing what they want.
SPEAKER 3: Proverbs 6:9, how long will thou sleep oh sluggard,
when will thou arise from thy sleep?
LEAH: As Amish, we don't really have free time.
We start work at the age of three. Or sometimes, earlier.
If children are taught to be responsible,
and have responsibilities and choice when they're growing up,
a lot of them kind of adapt to working.
JERRY: I think work is a great way to keep kids busy,
entertained, and out of trouble.
LEAH: We're busy in the fields, in the house, the gardens and the barn.
Every Amish family has a barn. Once we've left school at 14,
our work routine starts when the sun comes up
and ends when it goes down.
Ever since as Amish fled persecution in Switzerland
in the 17th century and settled in America,
work has been an important part of our lives.
It enables us to be as self-sufficient as possible
and to live separate from the world. BECKY: I think it gives you
a sense of security
because you don't have to depend on everybody else.
LEAH: But it's also part of our faith. SPEAKER 3: Matthew 11:28,
come on to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
SABRINA: Have you been on the tube before? BECKY: No.
SABRINA: Have you been on a train before like an overglance.
BECKY: No. SABRINA: (INAUDIBLE) like the train,
overground. The tube is basically underground,
so you can't see outside the window. There's all black.
LEAH: (INAUDIBLE) SABRINA: Yeah,
basically, you're going through a tunnel on the train.
TUNDE: It's a bit chilly down here, boy. BARAH: It's windy here.
SABRINA: It's windy. LEAH: Where does it come from?
SABRINA: I don't know.
SPEAKER: Train (INAUDIBLE) on the door please, on the door.
(CHATTER)
BECKY: I notice that about one out of three had headsets on.
Isolating themselves. It's kind of amazing how,
you can be in such a big crowd and be totally isolated.
LEAH: Now, a lot of people just have like a straight stare,
they know where they're going, everybody's moving.
You see hundrens of thousands of people one day.
You don't really get to know anyone.
BECKY: You're never this close to vehicles in America?
JERRY: I know. BECKY: Crazy.
JERRY: (INAUDIBLE) suck trying to get a word
to describe. When I go to work, Angus,
go, know what's in the way.
SPEAKER 3: Mathrew 26:41.
Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
BARAH: There's a lot of sex shops, there's (INAUDIBLE) shops like...
BECKY: Sex shop, I've never heard of that.
BARAH: You can go, sort of, underware
and toys, things, but not nice things.
SPEAKER 7: Cause they want to know about Soho (INAUDIBLE).
TUNDE: What do you think of it? BECKY: Creepy.
TUNDE: It's creepy. BECKY: And it seems very...
The devil's territory. TUNDE: Serious?
LEAH: We've never seen anything like this. It's hard to understand
how people can be so open about something, which is so sinful.
SABRINA: If you did have a boyfriend, you'd be able to have physical contact
with him then. Or would it just be, unless you know,
you're going to get married him. BECKY: Well, I wouldn't want to
ruin (INAUDIBLE) until we get married. SABRINA: Yeah.
BECKY: My first kiss would be (INAUDIBLE). SABRINA: OK.
I actually agree. BECKY: Yeah.
SABRINA: But it's just like the way of living here,
It's just a bit... BECKY: It's so...
SABRINA: It's a bit more laid back. BECKY: Like do you have sexual relations
with the person you're dating? TUNDE: What, before the marriage?
BECKY: Yeah. TUNDE: (INAUDIBLE)
LEAH: For us, Amish, we keep mixing between the sexes
to a minimum. We worked separately.
Men doing the men's jobs, the women doing the women's.
JERRY: I think the wife should stay at home,
take care of the kids, do the housework.
BECKY: The woman is supposed to reverence her husband.
JERRY: I think every man wants a wife that respects him
and wants to do what he wants her to do. BECKY: It's not because
your husband deserves it, it's because you're honoring God
and it's his design, and it's wonderful.
LEAH: Sometimes we get together to play a game of volleyball.
It's at times like these, the boys might ask the girl on a date.
BECKY: I would imagine, I would probably be nervous,
on my first date. I guess it would depend on
if I knew the guy a lot, I don't know. I don't imagine,
I'd probably be nervous. (INAUDIBLE) know, maybe I wouldn't.
LEAH: Some Amish groups practice bundling. The tradition of going to bed
fully clothed with your date. But sexual intercourse is forbidden.
Others practice the hands-off rule. No touching or kissing
until you're married. We like to keep all temptations at Bay.
I think basically, everyone's probably tempted
with impure thoughts. And I have often heard the expression that
you can't help. if a bird sits on your head,
which you can't help, what thoughts come into your mind.
But then it goes on to say, but you can help it,
if the bird's making a nest on the top of your head.
For us, marital union is considered most sacred.
In Sabrina's house, there is no father at home.
Her mom, Julie, has brought up the children single-handed.
BECKY: Were your children very small when you became a single mom.
JULIE: There wasn't that young. They were about four or five.
BECKY: Would you say you preferred that to being married?
JULIE: Yeah. I mean, when you're on your own,
you don't get hassles. I'll go clubbing with my friends.
You might call it a disco. It's where you dance.
So I just go out and like the music and dance. yeah.
BECKY: Like do (INAUDIBLE) Sabrina does she ever see her dad?
JULIE: Yeah, they see their dad. That's fine.
There's no problem there. We've always got on really well.
BECKY: But what do you think about divorce?
JULIE: This is why I think I haven't been married yet,
is because when I meet someone, I want to make sure they're faithful.
BECKY: So why aren't you married? JULIE: Sorry.
BECKY: You weren't re-married? JULIE: No.
BECKY: Oh, OK. JULIE: As I've said,
I won't until I'm at 100% sure. BECKY: I didn't realize that.
Sorry. JULIE: It's nothing.
BECKY: Galatians 5:19 and now the works that the flesh
are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife,
that they, which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Maybe those people don't really know what it is to have
a pure adult-like teenage life, like before you get married.
And I don't, I think, I definitely think it's worth it.
It's worth not getting involved in sexual relations
before you're married.
I don't know, it just makes me really sad.
LEAH: Our new group of friends
want to show us what they're most into. They tell us it's something
they do for fun, but it's also a big part of their lives.
RYAN: You (INAUDIBLE).
Come let's go, let's go, let's go, let's get ready.
Are you sitting there, come let's get up.
Let's get ready, let's get ready to dance.
We're dancing, Yemi.
(HIP HOP BEATS PLAYING)
LEAH: Most Amish, don't listen to music or dance unless it glorifies God.
And we certainly never do anything on show.
To do so revealed a lack of humility and pride is a Cardinal sin.
SABRINA: You look a bit shocked, all of you.
(CROSSTALK). RYAN: It's probably not the same
as what you are used to. You know,(INAUDIBLE)
seen or heard of any type of dance. (CROSSTALK).
SABRINA: Did you like it? BECKY: I don't know.
(INAUDIBLE) have to decide yet. LEAH: I don't think, I've ever seen
people dancing like that to some music.
ANDREW: I don't associate with people like this, you know,
that much. So it's like, a new thing for me
and not too sure about it all.
(SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEAH: The kids we're staying with have just been showing us,
their street dance with the pumping music,
and jerky movements. It couldn't be further
from our slow paced, Amish way of life.
BECKY: I was really curious, what made you start this group.
TUKS: Well, passing it to me, obviously, it's made a big difference
in my life, a big difference. I used to just, hang around
on the block with my friends. But now, obviously,
I have something to do. Before, I was just,
I used to squeeze my time. I was quite a bad kid
but obviously when I started dancing, like, my mind just went elsewhere.
I think if I wasn't dancing, I don't think,
I'd be where I am with my education, jobwise, with my family,
I think I'll probably would have been kicked out by my house by now.
Dance has actually, made the biggest difference in my life.
It saved me. (LAUGHTER)
BECKY: It seems kind of like, I don't know, a noble thing to do
to, you know, just keep out of trouble, like he's.
I'm impressed. (LAUGHTER)
I was wondering if it makes you a little tired?
SABRINA: You see us after. (LAUGHTER).
Is it like, oh my gosh, that is so hot.
LEAH: At the end of the week, our friends are performing
at the memorial of Tuks' 14-year-old friend, David,
who got killed last year in the park, opposite his home.
Tuks is keen that we meet David's mom, before the gathering.
GRACE: Hello everyone. Please to meet you, everyone.
You look so lovely. Please to meet you, darling.
LEAH: I'm Leah. GRACE: OK, what's the name?
BECKY: Becky. GRACE: Becky.
Come inside, yes. Have you a seat.
BECKY: Is that a family picture of like your boys?
GRACE: Yes. That's Frank.
Yeah, this is David. That's him.
If I could ask you this, is there any violence in your community?
LEON: I don't think so, no. GRACE: OK.
LEAH: Not at all. JERRY: I've never heard of it,
in our town. GRACE: Good.
BECKY: Like one Amish man wouldn't do that to another.
LEAH: In Amish communities, there is no crime.
Our upbringing is strict. We are brought up to value our community,
to love our neighbor and our enemy. We don't believe in violence,
war or confrontation. SPEAKER 3: Proverbs 15:1,
a soft answer, turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
GRACE: What happened last year was a shock,
for I and my family. It was a big shock.
He left for the school that day. He had his breakfast and he left.
He came back from school. He went to the park.
They're a group of boys, like 12, 12 of them.
And this one that stab him, he just went to him, straight away
and just stab him. There's no confrontation,
like fighting, like argue or anything. It's 20 seconds he has been there,
and run back, quick. It's 20 seconds.
That 20 second, the damage had been done. The knife went deep,
very deep into his heart. About 9cm deep into his heart.
David was taken to the hospital but a ambulance.
And he was there for 20 days. BECKY: 20 days.
GRACE: Yes, and he struggle a lot. You see, that boy is a fighter.
He struggled to survive. He struggled for his life to survive.
But unfortunately, the knife have done a great damage
in his body. So, that was how we lost David.
So, it's such a great loss but my believe is that,
I'm going to see my boy again. That is it.
That is what keeps me going because I'm going to see him again.
JERRY: It's pretty sad that such a young life was taken.
Hopefully, we can... it helped her pass her day well,
since we were with her. LEAH: Like us, our London friends,
believe David will go to heaven. They are Christians too.
Well, not all the group. Bahar's family is Muslim.
She wants to show us, how the Muslims worship.
BECKY: If you believe in other gods, other than Jesus,
those are all a trick by the devil. There is only one God.
SPEAKER 3: Proverbs 1, my son if sinners entice thee,
consent thy not. Walk thy not thou in the way with them.
Refrain thy foot from their path. LEAH: Back home,
we're all God-fearing Christians, and we've never experienced the faith
other than our own. BECKY: What are they bowing down to?
BAHAR: Allah, God. LEAH: Do they pray anywhere else?
BAHAR: In their houses, they pray. JERRY: Why are their only men here?
BAHAR: The men and women can't pray together.
JERRY: Are people praying here all day long?
BAHAR: No, there's set time. They pray five times a day.
SPEAKER 8: The First Mosque, we believe in the world,
was created by Abraham, in Mecca. And this is where Mohammed,
Peace be upon Him, was born. The directions of all the Mosques,
is towards Mecca. So, we pray in the direction of Mecca.
Mecca is in the Middle-East, in Saudi Arabia.
There's a place called Mecca. LEAH: Is it towards the East?
SPEAKER 8: Towards the East. And we believe, all prophets
were normal human beings, they were men.
BECKY: So, you don't believe that Jesus was God.
SPEAKER: We believe he was a prophet. That Jesus was a prophet
like all other prophets. We believe that
he did not die on the cross.
BECKY: Do you think that, he's different form the God that
Christians believe in? SPEAKER 8: No, we believe
there's only one God. We believe there's only one God.
And it's just people have different names for Him,
and people have different ways of worshiping Him.
BECKY: It was very interesting to learn about the way Muslims...
about their beliefs and everything. I'm glad we went,
just to observe and to see. But it was the first time,
I talked to either like a Muslim or anybody
that has a different faith. I kind of just thought about
like why are there so many different religions,
so many different faiths in the world.
I mean, how do people know which is the right one?
JERRY: We found out what kind of a religion they have.
It's not unlike ours, except they don't believe
that Jesus is the son of God. They believe in some other guy.
There is a lot of similarities. It was interesting
and kind of cool, I think. LEAH: For Jerry,
looking at another faith and set of values,
is the reminder of the crucial life decisions, he needs to make.
Like many Amish teenagers, Jerry is on, what's called Rumspringa
or a running around period. Only some Amish groups
acknowledge this window of opportunity. And for those that do,
their 16th birthday is an exciting landmark.
JERRY: Alright, boys, let's go. LEAH: For the first time in their lives,
they're allowed to go and explore the world
outside their Amish community. This can mean anything
from giving up their Amish clothes, their horse and bodice,
and doing things that other teenagers do.
Like driving a car, using electricity and watching TV
to really letting their hair down, drinking alcohol and smoking
with non-Amish friends. Jerry is 23.
He's been enjoying, running around now for a long time,
but he needs to make up his mind, whether to give up the modern world,
be baptized and become Amish for the rest of his life or not.
It's a torturous decision for him to make.
BAHAR: What happens like when you decide to finish?
JERRY: Once if I go back to the Amish?
BAHAR: Yeah. JERRY: Then I have to like,
sell my car, sell my TV, radio, phone, everything.
BAHAR: Does that mean, thinking of like,
become a Sheik Muslim. There's a lot of things in my life,
like my modern name, dancing, like going out,
I'll have to stop all of that. JERRY: So, you're kind of like me,
right now. You're having your Rumspringa.
Do you feel like you should do that? You feel, that's what you want.
BAHAR: I really want to. JERRY: You really want to
but you're afraid, you can't. BAHAR: Yeah, that's the one.
JERRY: Life isn't easy, is it? BAHAR: No, not at all.
SABRINA: Know this, that thing on... What's that called?
LEAH: We call it at home, we call it a cap.
SABRINA: A cap. LEAH: (INAUDIBLE)
SABRINA: Cover what? LEAH: Covering.
SABRINA: And what do you wear that for?
LEAH: The Bible, it talks about the women, you know, being covered.
SABRINA: Aliright, OK. LEAH: It's like a symbol of submission.
SABRINA: OK. How long is your hair then?
BAHAR: It's really long. SABRINA: Wow, it's down there.
LEAH: Yeah. SABRINA: Wow, that is long.
LEAH: We don't cut our hair. SABRINA: Oh, you don't cut it.
'Cause we cut out hair, all the time as you can see.
Would you ever dye your hair a different color?
I never wished for a different color of hair, really.
BECKY: So gross. (GIGGLES)
BAHAR: Looks like witches hands. BECKY: Looks like claws.
LEAH: Like claws or something. BECKY: It smells really bad in hear.
Why would you come in here and get stuff on your nails?
SABRINA: I wanna get it done because I like the way it looks.
Normally, I'd get white (INAUDIBLE), but I decided to get black.
When I first got it done, couldn't do that, (INAUDIBLE).
BECKY: Another thing, you couldn't milk a cow.
LEAH: It would kick you.
BECKY: Like how much would you normally spend?
SABRINA: Getting my nails done cost 20GBP.
And hair cost way more than that. 80 GBP.
BECKY: 80 GBP? SABRINA: 80.
LEAH: How much? BECKY: 80 GBP.
(CROSSTALK) $120. in the US.
SABRINA: Yeah. LEAH: That's crazy.
LEAH: I think long nails are pretty impractical as well.
I wouldn't want a boy to notice my beautiful heart,
instead of going on outward appearance. It wouldn't be
a very good foundation to start a marriage relationship.
SPEAKER 3: 1 Peter 3:3, let it not be that outward adorning,
of plating the hair, and of wearing of gold,
or of putting on of apparel.
(SPIRITUAL SONGS)
LEAH: Amish girls are not into makeup or jewelery.
We don't pain our nails or cut our hair.
We believe the way God made us is the way we should be.
ANDREW: I guess if I see a girl, I look at her character,
just because she's beautiful on the outside,
doesn't mean she's beautiful on the inside.
LEAH: Our fashion is to part our hair in the middle
and comb it back over our heads. And on formal occasions,
to cover it with a homemade barnet. We're not concerned
about accumulating material things for our happiness.
Basically because I understand my life is, you know, short.
It's going to be like a vapor amongst all the lives
that are on the earth. I don't think I'm attached
too much on earth.
We don't spend time shopping for clothes. Instead, we make everything by hand.
And you just touch your finger with the needle.
You don't prick it or anything. You just touch it
so you can feel that it's through. Do you think you would like
that kind of thing? BAHAR: If I was good at it,
I would probably (CROSSTALK). SABRINA: Am I going to this one?
LEAH: Yeah, and then you just connect those two.
SABRINA: Are there like, not proper goes, that sounds bad,
but they are. BARAH: Yeah.
SABRINA: Like the traditional girls. (CROSSTALK) traditional girls.
BARAH: If I could do it, I probably would actually just sit there
and try and do something. SABRINA: Cause that could be
quite (INAUDIBLE). But I would prefer to do,
make a quilt.
# Oh fest, oh fest
# To the rip
# To the rip. #
I love the singing. And it did remind me
of (INAUDIBLE) films. Like where a dog would be running
from the fields. And they'll be at home,
like with their little black children running around,
and then like, the mom would be in the corner
on a rocking chair. And you could Leah like,
she enjoys it. BARAH: Yeah.
Nothing that they do is chore for them.
Everything's just (CROSSTALK).
# That you learn
# From your mother at home. #
That's really nice. SABRINA: Nice, so nice.
BARAH: Yeah, it's so relaxing. SABRINA: Yeah, definitely.
LEAH: While the girls have been having a quiet time in,
the Amish boys have been learning how to stay in shape.
SPEAKER: (UNKNOWN), open your legs wider, wider.
(LAUGHTER) Try and touch your toes.
With your legs, straight. Stay there, stay there.
Leon, what's wrong?
I'm sure you can get (INAUDIBLE). That was high.
RYAN: Yeah, do you wanna take your jumper off,
have you got something underneath? JERRY: Yeah.
SPEAKER: Actually, leave it on just in case you drop.
(LAUGHTER)
Just land on your back and you'll be fine.
ANDREW: I think the dance group is great.
I've been getting along great with all of them, pretty much.
The first of the week, it was kind of awkward.
And we're just now at the stage that we're really getting to know them.
We can have a blast.
SPEAKER 8: I've noticed that the Amish, are very positive people.
They always have a smile on their face.
But even in London, we're not open
to try anything new. We like to do what we know.
But I think they like to just give anything a try.
BECKY: It's definitely a different experience
to live in the city. I'm not the type of person
that will want to live in the city. But I still admire
the family we're staying with. 'Cause they seem to be content
even if they have a small house. I guess it teaches me,
not to take for granted, what we have back at home.
LEAH: The houses are really small and tiny.
And they might not have all the space
that they wish for. I'm inspired
and I think I can learn from them, to appreciate what I have,
and make the best of it and enjoy life, anyway.
So, it's been a good week so far and I've enjoyed my time
with these people.
Today is the memorial service for Tuks' friend, David Idowu.
Grace, David's mother, is holding this community gathering,
in the park where David was killed. To send out a message
that street crime has to end. As Amish, we've never experienced anything
like this before. PASTOR: We pray also again,
that the memory of David, will continue to live,
in the name of Jesus. CONGREGATION: Amen.
LEAH: But we want to do what we can to help.
GRAE: Last year, I lost my boy. 14-year-old boy.
Coming to this park, just to come and play with his friend.
Knife crime is destroying family. is destroying the whole community.
We need to come together to join hands together.
JERRY: I think it's a good thing like something like this does happen
that people get together and try to stop it.
I think that's great. The Amish don't come together
to try to change everybody, anybody's opinion
because everybody's like kind of lives the same.
They have the same rules, and everybody goes by those rules.
So, everybody is kinda thinks alike. Being in the city made me realize,
a little bit about how good it is to be Amish,
and know that you're actually safe and don't have to worry
about being robbed or anything like that.
LEAH: Our street dance friends have agreed to perform.
And knowing how we like to sing, they've suggested,
we might get up on stage and join in.
As humble, slow-pace people, being on show
is something we never normally do. This is our first time
to perform on stage.
# Let's come together
# Let's live as one
# Let's stay together
# And mean that we can save a life #
BECKY: I had sang in a choir a couple of times before
but this was quite a new experience for me to sing
in front of a crowd. I was very nervous
but I guess it went OK.
# Let's come together
# Let's live as one. #
SPEAKER 5: It's very moving when they sang cause I've only really heard them sing
like in the morning when they're walking through the house
and never seen them out there in front of so many people.
So to do this in front of people they've never known before,
I think it was really good for them to do that.
LEAH: It seems like the British enjoy performing
and being center stage. Singing in the group,
gave us a newfound confidence. Well, not quite all of us.
The boys decided, being in the limelight,
wasn't for them. But this week has encouraged us
to do things we've never done before. RYAN: Two, three, four.
BECKY: When I first observed and watched the dance group,
I wasn't sure that it was something I would support.
I admire them for choosing something else
than being out there in a gang and actually being a violent person.
I think they've made a noble choice. They've welcomed our group
just like we were one of them and I think we can learn from them
in that way. RYAN: Seven, eight.
One, two, three, four. (LAUGHTER)
ANDREW: They live in the city and I live in the country.
They play video games and watch TV,
and I'm out in the barn, playing with horses.
But I think it's great that, two people that much different
can still get together and have a blast.
LEON: Hey, I've got an idea. Now try.
(LAUGHTER)
SABRINA: Materialistic things, in my life, like hair and nails,
worrying about which clothes I'm gonna wear,
I've learned that, is not really that important, anyway.
RYAN: One, two, three. Four, five, six, seven eight.
LEON: I wasn't gonna do it but I'm glad I did.
I found that it kind of lift your spirit a little it.
I guess I'm kind of fired up, right now. I mean (LAUGHS).
TUKS: I thought that laugh was all about money and girls,
about money and... money and girls.
They've taught me that there's more to life than that.
BECKY: I know, I'm going to miss them. Just there,
thinking of living in the city and, hey it actually wasn't that bad.
LEAH: Next, we're staying with some teenagers in Kent.
SPEAKER: They look kinda like they're not very clean.
LEAH: We hear they have a love for music.
I guess, it was like a shock to my body.
My first instinct was to plug my ears which was not a good idea (LAUGHS).
BECKY: I think rock music is considered evil.
It does something to your body that I don't really like.
LEAH: We hope they might share some of our values.
When I see girls dressing in bikinis in front of the boys,
I'm concerned for the girls because they don't really realize
what kind of temptations they are creating
SPEAKER 9: So, you're hemish. ANDREW: Amish.
SPEAKER 9: Amish. What do you do on a daily basis?
ANDREW: Work. (LAUGHTER)
LEAH: And maybe we'll learn from their beliefs too.
SPEAKER 10: Jerry and Leon, I don't like to say it
but if they don't repent, I reckon they'll be going to hell, too.
(LAUGHS) Cause they drink and smoke more than us.
JERRY: We can't buy beer no more. SPEAKER 11: You're looking like
you've a lot, anyway. (LAUGHTER)
VOICE: Undercover with the pastors, delivering children from evil,
Dispatches: Britain's Witch Children, tomorrow at 8:00.
At 9:00 a new series of The Hospital,
centers first on the sexual time bomb facing tody's teens.
But next up, it's Big Brother.