A difficult choice

It is very difficult to choose the best in my field. Indeed public administration goes with a lots of other subject. One can find that a great state man is the best public administrator. In that case I would have to say that C. de Gaulle was the best one. He succeed to save and rebuild French administration after WW2 and later build a complete new administration by creating the fifth Republic.

But other think that political philosophy is the core of public administration in the way that it inspires its organization. In this sense I should support Montesquieu as the best in my area. Without a doubt his book The Spirit of Law is one of the most important. His concept of check and balances influences all the modern democratic Administrations.

Finally, one can claim that the best in this field are those who directly work at it : Public Administrators. Here in France, I would have to choose Maurice Laure. He is not famous but assumed his charges with a great honour and has contributed to improve administration. He is the inventor of the Value added tax which allows a better efficiency and fairness for the taxpayer. This concept was expanded to a lot of other countries.

My carrer

I study a career a little special. It lasts five years but I really have to choose my career in the fourth year. The two first one are general. I studied history, law, economics and foreign languages. After that two general years everybody must go on a year abroad. This is what I'm doing now.
I am to choose in few weeks what career I want to follow for my two final college years. I have a large choice as journalism, international affairs or business. But I think I will go for Public Administration. Indeed I am interested in a lot of the subjects taught in this career. Furthermore what attracts me more to this way is to work in public administration. I really think those are fine jobs with great responsibilities. I would be very proud to work for the common well. One could find this last sentence a little emphatic but that's really what Public administrator do. They try to make the state work. Their job is to make possible the common life of millions of administrated. They have to work dealing with greats valors as fairness. In fact, I really look forward to study public law . The only sad thing is that I have to leave my favorite subject : History. But I am sure I would find time to pursue this study all by myself.

A night out

This photo was taken by a friend on a rail trip on Europe. We had bought train tickets which allowed us to travel as much as we wanted in Europe. We were five male friends and we had a lot of fun. We went through all the north of Europe : Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Sweden...
The photo takes place in Göteborg in the south of Sweden. We were sleeping in hostals that we were booking from one day to another. But because of a delayed train we arrived very late at Goteborg and we had not booked a room yet. When we arrived, we learned that a youth international football tournament was taking place in the city. Most of the hotel and hostal were occupied by the young players. Moreover one of my friend had his hand badly injured and it started to be infected. The number one priority was to go to the hospital which was an hour from Göteborg. When we finally got back in the city everything was closed and we spend the night in the street.
I really enjoyed this photo because it expresses well friendship. We are at bus stop trying to get warmer by getting all together. It also a great souvenir, as often holidays bad situations became greats memories which strength friendship.

Wikipedia

My favorite website is Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). It is really amazing and can help you both to study or for fun. It is one of the first website I discover when I got a laptop. I go on it everyday for very different matters. I use it to help me with an essay. Of course it will not be my unique source but it is very useful to get a quick overview of the subject I have to study on. I also use it to check fact on biographies, History or whatever I'm not clear about. I don't agree with those who say that one can only find poor information on Wikipedia. One can see very quickly if the article is serious or not. Wikipedia is not to be used as a regular encyclopedia but more as a giant share of information on all subjects. What seduces me on Wikipedia is the large community that rules the website. These people believe strongly in the project and take a great part of their free time to make Wikipedia work. It really became a reflex to go on Wikipedia but this is also risky. Indeed, I use much less my memory since I only need 2 minutes to find what I am looking for. That is why I now try to check my memory before Wikipedia !