So Friday night I served a culinary banquet, with 225 people. 5 VIP tables, all including.. city councilmen, the mayor's representative, and some pretty "high up there" chefs. I wore a little black dress, 2 1/2 inch heels, I started at 1:30 that evening and i kept on going till 10:00 that night. Let's just say my feet were D E A D!! It was frustrating and exhausting and would have been a complete "waste" of one of my very few Friday nights left in high school. E X C E P T When I was in the back of the banquet hall making my way out so their event could start. The host/MC for the night began his thanks. Starting with our school, chef Pittman, chef smith, &&& Miss Diana Lacey. \\
This by itself was pretty cool, just to simply get recognized and singled out. But then when i did my wave from the VERY back of the banquet hall the host continued to speak to me:
"is that Diana there in the back?"
To this i waved and smiled still, thinking he just wanted everyone to put a face with the name.
"Diana our table was so impressed with you earlier this evening. Not many 18 years old can walk up to a table full of grown men and woman and introduce themselves, enough so to leave an impression"
I can't tell you word for word what he had said after that, but for the rest of the night I was complemented multiple times on my "business presence". I controlled the banquet, I dealt with the rising issues I conducted the students and I made an impression. Even if it was a small one, it made my night just to know hear that I was different than most, that I was set apart.
I was given Flowers and I was asked over and over again if i was going to college, I was told not to waste my talent, and that I could easily make it to the top one day. "You carry yourself very well" my chef explained to me many times throughout the past two years, but that night, yeah that night I felt like I had accomplished so much more. [:
........ I did go home, ice my feet, then took a very l o n g & h o t bubble bath and swore never to wear heels again....
&&& Tuesday, I do it all over again!!
This by itself was pretty cool, just to simply get recognized and singled out. But then when i did my wave from the VERY back of the banquet hall the host continued to speak to me:
"is that Diana there in the back?"
To this i waved and smiled still, thinking he just wanted everyone to put a face with the name.
"Diana our table was so impressed with you earlier this evening. Not many 18 years old can walk up to a table full of grown men and woman and introduce themselves, enough so to leave an impression"
I can't tell you word for word what he had said after that, but for the rest of the night I was complemented multiple times on my "business presence". I controlled the banquet, I dealt with the rising issues I conducted the students and I made an impression. Even if it was a small one, it made my night just to know hear that I was different than most, that I was set apart.
I was given Flowers and I was asked over and over again if i was going to college, I was told not to waste my talent, and that I could easily make it to the top one day. "You carry yourself very well" my chef explained to me many times throughout the past two years, but that night, yeah that night I felt like I had accomplished so much more. [:
........ I did go home, ice my feet, then took a very l o n g & h o t bubble bath and swore never to wear heels again....
&&& Tuesday, I do it all over again!!
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