Women and Business

Last week's class was all about Women and Business.  Since I'm majoring in business, I thought this panel would be quite interesting.  Not that I didn't find the information applicable or helpful, it is just that the information was not exactly for me.  The panel mostly talked about starting their own businesses.  I have such a high respect for people who can start their own businesses; I know I could never do such a daring task.  It takes a special kind of person to start their own business.  These people have to be comfortable with failure, something I am not okay with.  I thought the story told by the women who was entrepreneur of her own caster business was almost straight out of a movie.  She had some guts to confront the CEO of a huge car manufactuer. 

On Saturday, I attend the Otterbein Community Garden open house.  I had never been to the garden, so I enjoyed be able to see another part of Otterbein.  I got the chance to decorate pumpkins and sketch into leaves.  I also got to drink apple cider and try roasted red pepper hummus, which was surprisingly tasty!  WARM was an organization that had informational posters up and I learned about hunger within Ohio, and even right here in Westerville.  Supposedly, 1 in 6 children in Ohio does not have enough food.  That statistic was hard for me to believe.  Westerville is an affluent city;  I can't imagine the hunger in other cities around Ohio.  What about the urban areas in Columbus, Cleveland, Cinncinati, or Toledo?  What about the rural areas of southeast Ohio?  I plan on volunteering for WARM sometime in the near future.

This week's panel is about Women and Politics... This should be interesting!