Life in a town\in a village

• living in the city compared to living in the country (pros and cons)

Living in the city and village brings a lots of differences. I think differences in environment, kind of house, cultural possibilities and so on. It is said, the people from village get used to city more easily then ones get used to village.

The main advantage of city is that people can find there everything. They can buy many necessities what didn’t come off in village. During the shopping they can take a brake in café, pub or even have a lunch in restaurant.

There are entertaining places where people can amuse they selves. Disco, festivities and a lots of music concerts are entertaining us to night or overnight. Older people like inviting cultural performances. In bigger cities cinemas show every day. The theatre performances are sought-after too.

We shouldn’t forget for sporting facilities. We can find there winter stadiums, outdoor and indoor swimming pools, playgrounds, tennis courts, gyms. And it would pity if there weren’t sport competitions as athletic games, volleyball, basketball, handball, football, baseball, and softball matches.

On the other hand in village people live in healthy environment. Every family owns theirs family house. In town people mainly live in block of flats. The village is surrounding nature and animals. Country people can grow healthy vegetables for their own use and maybe for their pleasure ( potatoes, carrots, onions),  as well as fruit and grain. Almost every person in the village keeps some poultry (hen, ducks), rabbits, sheep, cows and pigs. The pig-feast is known event in the village.

The disadvantage is worse transportation from villages to cities. People must often use own car or bike to commute to work or school. In bigger villages are for children sometimes only kinder gardens and elementary schools. The cities offer secondary schools, apprentice training centre and in some cases also universities. The children attend different interest circles.

The cities offer lots advantages indispensable for present life, but cities are not to be able to offer healthy environment what we can find only in surroundings of villages.

• describe your flat/house

I live in town called Velké Meziříčí. Our family lives in a block of flats in a three room flat. The block of flats has eight floors and thirty – two flats. We live on the first floor. In our flat there are three rooms, a toilet, a bathroom and a kitchen. There is a balcony too. ¨

When you come into the flat, we are found in hall. The hall is not very large. There is just room for a wardrobe with shoes and an oval mirror. The first door on your right side leads to the lavatory, the second door leads into the kitchen.

There is a circular table near the window. There is also a long cupboard on the wall and opposite you can see a freezer, a fridge and cupboard for food. In the corner there is a very important gas stove, because my mother cooks lunch and dinner here. The next is sink, where we wash up if we don´t use dishwasher. Among often use appliance by us belong  the microwave oven and coffee maker.

The space of the living room is about 20 square meters. A table and armchairs stand on the claret carpet in the middle of the room. There is a brown sofa along one wall and wall unit along another wall and also a yellow standard lamp in the corner. The opposite the sofa is a stereo, a video recorder and a TV set, because our family like watching TV and listening to music.

The other two rooms are bedrooms. On the right from kitchen there is parent’s bedroom with one large bed and many wardrobes, two little night tables with a lamp and small bookcase, because my parents like reading.

Next to it is a nursery. I have a room together with my sister. There is bunk bed some cases and wardrobes in our room. On my table we have a PC computer. I have three cactus on windowsill and my sister like sticking posters on the walls. That is why we have fill up almost walls. On the bookcase there are my Teddy bears.

All our house has gas central heating in the flat. When we go on balcony we can see almost Bezděkov  street where is our house situated.

• the place where I live

I currently live in Velkém Meziříčí. V. Meziříčí arose at the confluence of two rivers. (Oslava and Balinka). The beginnings of town are connected to inception Romanesque-Gothic castle from 13. century.

In the historical centre of the town have been preserved some monument until today. There are Renaissance houses, Town hall, St, Nicholas Church and Baroque Chateau and from modern monument there is one of the biggest motorway bridges in the CZ (426 m long, 75 m high).

In this town live around 11 000 residents. Velké Meziříčí is a town of many factories. There are three primary school, Grammar School, Secondary Hotel School and apprentice training centre.

The town has a downhill course and an outdoor swimming pool. The sports clubs offer bowling, basketball and tennis courts, opportunities for horse-riding, fishing and observation flights by a sports plane. The surrounding countryside is suitable for hiking and riding bicycle in summer as well as cross-country skiing in winter.

In future I would like travel around the world and see many countries (their cultural life a surrounding native) and when I’ll settle down I want live in Velké Meziříčí.