Elijah Couch 8 - Culture shock for me

Do y'all remember when we were doing the culture assignment for Mrs. Larkin last year and she ask who had been to a different country and if there were cultural differences. Let me tell ya it was a major culture shock in Wisconsin this last couple times we went up there. We have never really experienced what it is really like up there till now. It's mostly because when dad was with his first girlfriend after the divorce he and her weren't very social so we only did things with each other ( the people in the house) and occasionally dad would invite friends from work to eat and meet us, but beside that they weren't social. Now dad has become more social because of his wife who is very social. So we are on the lake and some of dad and his wife's friends are there so they introduce us and we are hanging out with them till we leave. We start to leave and these people have gone through a couple twelve packs of beer. They drive up to the boat dock which is bar and put their boat in their spot and walk in the bar and go right on drinking more. These people never seem to stop drinking it's ridiculous, it is fine have a couple drinks every now and then I guess but they are all bar flies up there. Dad's wife's sister said one time because the bar is by a RV Park that if she could she'd live in a camper by the bar and never get off the chair till closing time. They also have tournaments of things at these bars like dad and his wife and her family are on a bean bag toss team and they play every Thursday. Dad's wife is also on a volleyball team, both of these things I find very weird. Their values is very different as well, I've never seen anything like it. Y'all know how there is a church on just about every street down here well up there church are virtually non-existent. We have been going up there for nearly five or six year now and I've only seem two or three churches which is really sad. Most of the people we have met up there are not saved and do not believe in Jesus. One value they have is drinking. How do I know y'all ask well it is simple. We were at a bar for the volleyball tournament and one of dad's friends comes up to me and asks if I have had a beer yet. I responded and told him "No I have not" and laughed because I thought he was kidding. He looked at my dad and said "You haven't gave him a drink yet" in which my dad answered "No I ain't gave him a drink and I ain't gonna give him one any time soon because he is too young." There is a law in Wisconsin that anyone under the age of 21 can be served or sold alcohol if they are with an adult of drinking age. So yeah that is part of the culture shock that I experienced up there. I ain't gonna give all the culture shocks because this is already extremely long. If y'all wanna hear the entire story ask me about it at school.