My last vacations

I think that the best place I ever stayed at was Easter Island. It’s a really nice and quiet place to stay in a middle of Pacific Ocean and there are a lot of attractions for someone who visits the island.

There are, for example, two volcanoes you can visit and appreciate the most beautiful landscape of the whole world. One of them is called Rano Kau, and is the ceremonial place of the natives in the island. The other volcano is Rano Raraku, and the crater was a gorgeous place with a lot of wilds horses. Other attractions are the Moais, the statues that were built by the natives of Rapa Nui thousands years ago, and the construction of them is a real mystery. The two beaches are really amazing; they are really quiet, and one of them has pink sand, something very rare, but attractive. The most fun experience in the island is the “Tapati”, a real festival that is a tradition in the island celebrated in February.

Easter Island is more than a recommendable place to visit on vacation; it’s a place where the most people want to visit again once they visited this magical island, especially in the summer.

I went to this island in February this year, after the Tapati festivities. I went with my dad and my two little brothers to a house in Mataveri sector. We visited the two volcanoes, the beaches, the museum, and we went diving and trekking around the island.

A country I'd like to visit

The country I’d most like to go is New Zealand. This country is very interesting and funny at the same time. New Zealand is famous for the Maori culture, the rugby, and the different climates in this island. The public management is very interesting too, because in this country they have really good public services and the people in this country live very well.

I’d like to visit the rugby stadiums and watch some All Black’s matches, play a couple of rugby matches, visit the snow at the mountains, and go to the beaches in the island. But mostly I want to learn about the Maori culture and the public service system that they have.

I’d like to study in this country, because I want to have time to learn about this culture and improve my English. Specifically, I want to study in an MBA or doctorate, because I want to have new ideas about the public management and bring them to Chile to improve the public services in our country.

My experience on last semester

This year, specifically on the past semester, I learned a lot of useful things for my future work life. I had several classes about public management, like formulation and evaluation of projects, planning, and managing of physical and technological resources.

I learned how to create a good mission, vision, strategically objectives and define products or services for an organization. But the most useful things I learned were the tools of management that the public manager uses all the time. Those tools were the ZOPP method, the SWOT analysis, and the stakeholder analysis system. With those practical tools we can know what we will do, how we will do it, and what considerations and cares we are going to take with our stakeholders, limitations and threats we have. We learned to take advantage with the opportunities and strengths of the organization too.

In conclusion, last semester we learned about the basics about managing an organization.