my experience last semester.

Hello, first of all I’m going to introduce myself again, my name is Jose Bruneau. Actually I’m in my second year at the university, and I study public management.
The most relevant things that I learned the past semester it was about the theory of the organization and the management, and also applied statistics because is very important to know about the quantitative method when then you want to do an investigation. I have to say that the last semester at the beginning I was in a very good shape because I went out to do jogging every day in the week but then when the weather started to change and the cold came I didn’t go out because I really don’t like feel cold and a gym for me is to much expensive. At the end of the last semester I found a part-time job at the airport, it’s very good for me because I got some money and spend my free time working in a very nice job, the people there is very nice and I have the chance to practice my English. About the challenges the last semester, I had to face a lot. The first one was when I arrived in Chile from my work and travel experience in the United Stated. I was very disconcerted because it takes some time to get used to what is happening surround you , the classes were already started and I missed two week so I was very lost. After that the next challenge was organize my time to make compatible my new job with the college. Anyway the last semester was very interesting I had a lot of stress and I did not have all the time to visit my friends in Temuco but that helped me to getting closer to my friend here in Santiago and meet new people. With my family every was the same, I love them so much but how I said the last semester I didn’t have enough time to visit them so I hope this spend more time with then this semester.

My blogging experience

Now that we are so close to the end of the semester after all those posts that I made, I think that was a very good way to learn and practice my English. This blogging experience for me was and still being very good exercise to improve my writing skills, and also my grammar. After all this 11 post that I made ... well actually there were just 10 because I miss one (that one about a website related with the major). At first when I started this exercise I thought that was a very good way because we no don’t use to write a lot in the English classes, and then when you have to write you realize that you don’t know how to do it. Now I think that I know a bit more about sentence structure and that it’s very important if then I want to apply to a student exchange. So of course that it helps me!
The advantages of bogging are that you can practice you English, and you have the chance to create and think about some special topic that are changing every week. If you are no good with grammar you can correct it and try to make it better every time you write in your post, and also because in our major is very important know how to write in English, we never know where we will be in our career. Also you can chare your blog with people of other countries and make friends. The disadvantages of using blogging in my opinion could be that we also need to improve our speaking with a more percentage of oral presentation in the semester. I know there are some people to is harder to speak in English but is the best way to learn, if you are a shy person and don’t practice, will very more complicated latter when you want to talk with someone. You can know all the grammar and all the words but you don’t know how to say them you may lose the opportunity to interact with people of other countries.

My ideal job

My ideal job is working as a counsellor in the ministry of housing, I would like that job because I think that in Chile the policies about housing are not good targeted. For me the skills that a good counsellor in that area must to have are: know a lot about urbanization, planning, sociology, ecology, and anthropology. Over all that technical skills you have to be emphatic with the things that are happening around you, and to know a lot of management because probable a lot of people will work for you. It’s very important to be present in the ground and see what it’s really happening in the street, you have to understand what are the needing of the people and try to make a plan incorporating all that factor. Working in the ministry of housing for me is not just built, is create a better place to live. A better environment to grown up. I think that I’ll be very good doing that job because I’ve studied those topics, and because I like very much to work for the people and solve their problem in that field. I want to specialized doing a MBA in urbanization so I think that I’ll be ready for that work. To find that job is very difficult, one because you need the experience and to get a job in the public service is no so easy. But if I am good like I’ll hope to I am going to be there.

A perfect piece of art

For me the most beautiful and wonderful piece of art is the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Italy, this cathedra was built in the Renaissance. Its main feature is its huge dome of more than 100 meters tall, never before has been built a dome-shaped structure above a cathedral. The dome was built by Italian architect Brunelleschi, there was a so big task that he even thought in full the cathedra with earth to create the shape of the dome. He finally was able to build it using a crane design created by Da Vinci.

I’ve never been in Italy but the first time I saw it was in my history class when I was in the high school and the teacher shows us the picture in the screen of the data show, I liked so much and I like also the history behind the building. I considered a piece of art and I like very much because shows the human been skills to create new things.

do schools kill creativity

Yes they do. sir ken speaks about the influence of the actual educational system in the formation of the children. he says that alL the school are down the same structure, they were made after the industrial revolution and it’s only reason was produce professional to increase the production, the wasn’t room for the music and drawing. but now we know that the education is unpredictable and we never know where we are going to end and about this point is when he says that the creativity and innovation is the most important think that we have to put into the education system in the schools. the school has to push the student to create and think news ideas. the problems as sir ken says is that in the school if you make a mistake is the worst thing that you can do and if you don’t give to the children the room to mistake you will be afraid to create and be innovative. “ we stigmatize the mistakes”.
So the schools just want to produce professional for the university, just think in the production and doesn’t move to think in others way to teach. The schools have to incorporate a very important and new concept that is the human ecology if they don’t and the teaching still being the same the life in earth will end in 50 year as sir ken says, so it’s very important to create a new education system for the schools around the world.

The best in my field

The best in my field of studding for me is definitely Henry Mintzberg. He is a very famous contemporaneous theorist of the organization and a management strategist. I know that I already talk bout him in the oral presentation but for me he is a very important person in our field, now with all the paradigm change we have to learn about other points of view about what an organization or an institution means and also we have to change the way that we are doing the management. His work has been focused in the understanding of the composition of the organization and in the teaching of this new management. his most important work is the creation of the theory of the compositions. The composition theory includes the systemic way to understand the organization, in this vision all the part of the organization work together and are united by the spirit of the organization. His innovative work change the all studding of the organizations before him the originations were studied separated from its environment and each part was studied separately. For me he is very important because when you are a beginner in the management study it is very complicated to understand what an organization or an institution is, whit his vision all seem so more easy and you can understand better getting and idea connected with you situation and realizing that an institution is not something hard to explain.

corection post

There is a photograph very important to me. it is in the Villarica`s lake in the south of Chile. I don’t really know who took this picture, it probably was taken by uncle Pity. He loves to take pictures from everybody... All my cousins appears in this photograph, we were 15 at that time, so it was a long line of children in the beach and the funnies, was that I and two other cousins were in the womb of our mothers. At one side of the photograph you can see the lake that has been part of our life since I was born. At the other side is my grandmother my grandfather and the rest of my mother’s brothers and sisters; they are 12. The picture was taken 20 yeas ago, it was probably taken on February because all family reunited in that month and we went together to the beach. We are 34 cousins now and in this summer we want to take the same picture, could you figure that?. I like so much that photograph because shows my family and how united we are, we support each other and we will be always together.