Women's History Month Celebration

So, I planned a four day celebration for Women's History Month at Saddleback College. Honestly, I thought event planning was a lot easier then what I later found it out to be... It was very hard trying to juggle both my classes and planning such a long event. At times I felt like ripping my hair out!!! Even though I struggled at times--and honestly at one point I thought everything that could be going wrong was going wrong-- I realize now that I have learned so much from the experience. I learned to pay more attention to detail, I learned that it's not always easy to communicate with everyone and actually learned a lot about the women's movement. I learned not to be scared of being a feminist.. and became an activist! The two weeks that I was going crazy was totally worth the amazing people I met along the way and the amazing opportunities that I received from planning this event. (and I'd like to thank everyone for presenting me with these opportunities and believing in someone who's as young as I am) I would like to express the importance of being an activist for something you believe in... You don't have to be an activist for every cause, but even if you were to pick one, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE and people WILL hear your voice. The most important lesson I learned from planning this event was that if you are loud enough, someone will hear you!

PS: I'd like to thank everyone who helped me with the event.. There were sooooo many of you who helped me and even did manual labor lol. Molly Grant, Marissa Geer and Lauren Notle: Thank you for all the hard work you put into the history walk. Jessica Ochoa: Thank you for being so attentive. Delainey Taylor: Thank you for dealing with me when I was going crazy over the missing packages.. you really calmed me down.

I know there is wayyyyy more of you who helped.. so thank you too.

Cheers,

Mel

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