An expert on your field

At first I did not know what to write this blog about, but I decided to tell you about an expert that marked my previous semester and a great innovator within the public administration.

Alvaro Ramírez Alujas holds a degree in Political Science, Public administrator and Master in Management and Public Policies of the University of Chile.  He is currently a Doctor of Political Science - Government Mention and Public Administration of the Ortega y Gasset University Research Institute, assigned to the Complutense University of Madrid. In addition to Academic of the Institute of Public Affairs (INAP) of the University of Chile.

The most important thing is that he is the founder and principal investigator of the Research Group in Government, Administration and Public Policies (GIGAPP) and international consultant in open government, public innovation, state reform and institutional strengthening. He is also president of the “Fundación Multitudes”,  which works towards an open state to improve governance and reduce inequality.

Ramírez Alujas was the teacher who taught us that we can innovate in public administration, that it is possible that it is not so bureaucratic and more open to citizenship. His classes were very dynamic and the tests were not on textual matter, rather, he wanted us to issue our critical opinion and learn based on experience.

My Hobbies

It's really hard to choose a hobbie to write about here, I'm always doing new things, courses or learning in a self-taught way, but I do not usually be constant, so I chose something that I've been practicing for many years, the bakery. Started from small with cookies and then I was trying to do more things, I have done glazing courses, fondant -is an edible icing used to decorate or sculpt - and basic pastry, I am very proud of everything I have learned. The best thing I did was my birthday cake last year, I liked it a lot as it looks.

Lately I took advantage of being in Santiago to take courses that in my city do not exist, the last one was Japanese calligraphy or Shodo, It is really difficult, we use brushes and ink, there were several classes just to learn 9 strokes. My final work I probably wrote it more than 100 times, each stroke has an order and a space within a square. The final Kanji that I wrote was to fly 飛, so I made a sky background with watercolor.

See you! (:

My favorite picture

This photo was taken in 2014, in the “Alameda” of Talca, it was the next year after graduating from high school, with one of my best friends we went to visit our former school for national holidays, some of our friends showed up with typical dances and we decided to visit them and support them.

Then we went through the “Alameda” until we reached a new coffee is our favorite until today.

The picture was taken by a friend of ours and the bicycle really was not mine, it was called "cletus" and it was from a great friend that I had left it to my care that day. I really like this photo because even though the years go by we are still friends and that was a great day, also because it reflects one of my favorite hobbies: the bicycle, was my great means of transport and at the same time I relaxed pedaling every day (: