Laura

I've always been a bit of an outsider, I've never really truly fit in with the groups and personalities of people I've met and gotten to know over the years. I would always run away with my imagination and not really stop at boundaries. That was more acceptable as a child playing but no one ever quite thought or saw the way I did and still do.
I never really had the same interests in the average everyday teen stuff like going to parties all of the time, drinking and experimenting with drugs etc. I've never wanted to do what "normal" people do in their teens instead I liked to be creative, have fun naturally (without alcohol or anything), at one point I liked to push myself out of my comfort zone and get to know people until I realised how crappy some human beings are!

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I'm special in my own way because I'm quite expressive and I have conversations that might seem strange or weird to other people and I think that's what differentiates me from them because they can't understand the connection or randomness of the conversation. Sometimes it's just a case of they're used to conversations that maybe I find boring and I'm not interested in.
I'm special because the way I see and look at my surroundings, I can express in my own way and I can embrace as how I have interpreted them. I'm pretty unique because I like to pick and choose I don't go for the copy version, I take bits as inspiration and I mix it up into my own and with this way I do things I don't exactly have a label to distinctively identify myself as one style/type/persona etc. I'm just me and that's pretty special. ?✨

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I don't think I have, I try to be patient because making a fuss doesn't always make the problem any easier or quicker resolved.
I have been on the other side and I had to deal with a few different difficult customers which I decided that I'd politely take the blame for one of the problems- one of the regulars in the bar I worked in had a go at me for getting his drink wrong but what I had given him was exactly what he'd asked for he then proceeded to talk to some of the other regulars in front of me bitching about me saying I was incapable of getting the correct drink and how he wasn't going to pay for it and some of his drinking buddies came up to apologise on his behalf because they knew he made a fuss over the drink he did actually ask for but I just politely took the blame saying it was my fault.
I also had to work the Christmas events on which I actually was okay with once I got the hang of it and there was a group out on a works night out that was among the tables I was serving. This table had decided to split their orders for everything which was annoying for me but I dealt with it, the older group were really nice even when totally drunk caused no problems but the younger group full of girls was where I ended up reaching my limit. They decided to keep going to the bar after I'd asked if they wanted drinks and said they hadn't been asked, one girl in particular was exceptionally rude and short tempered when I told her her shots would be ready in 2 minutes because the bar staff were going to get more glasses, which she was unhappy about and she just kept complaining and bitches about me even to another member of staff. I ended up losing my patience with the group of girls to the point the guy supervising me took me to the side to make sure I was okay and just said to let them think they're right because they weren't worth the hassle!

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The customer isn't always right and it's common decency to have a bit of patience towards those who are serving you no matter the job or how easy you think their job is! If you were to really step in their shoes and see what goes on behind closed doors you might think twice about being that unhappy customer again! It really opened my eyes working in the bars and doing different events to see how abusive and crappy people can be towards those providing them services! All you need to do is appreciate that they're trying their best in the situation and have some patience so that it can be resolved with ease and quicker than you being frantically mad and the situation becoming worse!! ??

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I don't think I've made anything influential more like sentimental! ?? I'm all about sentimentality and one of my favourite sculptures I did was a vase which I dedicated to my gran. My project was 'Who are you?' so I looked at it from a family background perspective and focused on her because she is and will always be a huge inspiration. She was like a second mother to me when my parents were at work I'd go to my gran and grampas house and they've just always had a huge influence on me. I cried A LOT when doing a presentation which I didn't expect at all, I think because the severity of how personal it was for me and my family (due to what she's been through in the last 4/5 years). Family is such an important thing to me so I was really emotional the whole way through my project! The design and images that are on the vase came from bits in my sketchbook and have a certain importance for being there!

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