UNIVERSITY „VITEZ“ VITEZ

FACULTY OF LAW

FIRST STUDY CYCLE; YEARS OF SRUDY: III YEARS

COURSE: COMMON LAW

„BONN – BAD GODESBERG“

ESSAY ASSIGNEMENT

Zenica, 08.07.2019.
UNIVERSITY „VITEZ“ VITEZ

FACULTY OF LAW

FIRST STUDY CYCLE; YEARS OF STUDY: III YEARS

COURSE: COMMON LAW

„BONN – BAD GODESBERG“

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

STATEMENT: I, Filip Vidović, student of university „Vitez“ Vitez,

Index number: 025-18/DPOP with moral and academic responsibility state that I solely made this
essay assingment with the help of my professor.

Student signature: Filip Vidović

STUDENT: Filip Vidović

SUBJECT: English Language II
PROFESOR: Lec. Vesna Biljaka
1. INTERLUDE:

The essence of this essay work will be bringing closer to you one
enjoyable place in which I worked and lived for a short period. It's
multicultural, pleasant and full of places to see, eat, walk enjoy, and
generally full of people you'll remember for the rest of your life. I chose this
place because it is an pretty uncommon place, and did not want to talk about
tourist destinations such as Spain, France or Italy.
2. BONN, BAD GODESBERG

Bad Godesberg is a municipal district of Bonn, one of the most beautiful and preserved
cities in the entire region of Nord – Rhine Westfallia and the former capital of West Germany.
It is locates in the very south of NRW and Germany's biggest river Rhein flows trough it. Mostly
on hills and rocks, it is full of medievel castles and towers that are preserved to this day. The
entire town has great infrastructure is connected with trains, ferries and busses, so it's fairly easy
for every visitor or inhabitor to get around. Also, you can download an app that helps you always
find a way of public transportation so that people could generally get trough one part of the town
to another faster, cheaper and ofcourse to regulate pollution. Once you get to know the town in a
couple of days, then it is time to meet the people. There is a joke that everybody knows
everybody in Godesberg, and thats a feeling that sticks after you start to notice so much people
greating one another and saying ''hallo'' on the streets, the subways, restaurants etc.

That is one of the things I liked most, because it has all the elements and curiosities of a city, but
still is not to large, so the people you meet and become acquainted to will probably cross your
way very often. The structure of society is multicultural and full of both homegrown Germans
and migrants from other places that fill both the academic and working needs Germany has.
I will not talk so much of their nationalities since that's the main topic of our everyday
conversation, let just say we have people from almost the entire globe and dominantly from
Eastern Europe. The people are generally kind and welcoming, generous and kind, mostly
because they adapted the German mentality and way of life, and some because they are aware
that their paths will be in most cases crossed with yours multiple times again.

The weather is mostly rainy outside summer and even most of the summer it rains again, but
surprisingly doesn't snow in the winter. Still, I wouldn't describe the place as cold, more like not
warm. You can tell which houses belong to natives, because these houses have marble roofs or a
marble access. Marble changes color and becomes darker when is wet, so when it rains, the some
town parts are breathtaking.

The food is generally good because you can always find your favorite dishes. The restaurants are
full in the mornings and evenings, the food is typical for Central Europe, but still there are many
Turkish dinner restaurants, and I have worked in one. Germans like to try new dishes and spice
their meals a little bit, so you can always expect restaurants to be full at night.
Also, drinking beer is a German thing and you can find many types of beer in shops and in pubs.
On Wednesdays you can buy on the streets a special type of pretzel, on Thursdays the Turks sell
kebab and grilled chickens in their little remote van shops.
The downtown is trully the place to shop. Full of selection, you can buy almost everything you
need, from clothing to accessories, jewellery, cellular phones, car parts, car rentals, gum and spa
centers, etc. What has suprises me the most is the number of cafes located in the centre, because
it is not common in German culture to drink coffe in cafes during working hours, but Godesberg
reminds us on Balkans in some sort. That is perhaps one of the reasons I liked Bad Godesberg so
much because it reminded me of home in that social sense but was also a place anyone can find a
decent job, have a solid income and walk around with a smile on their place.
Couple of years later I visited my best friend who plays rugby in Saint Claude, France and also
liked the town and locals so much. In the making of this essay work I actualy found out that
Saint Claude and Bad Godesberg are twins cities, which makes me love the place even more.