My name is Savannah, I am First Nation. I from the Shishalh Nation. I was born in Vancouver, lived there until I was one years one, then I moved to the Sunshine Coast. This is where all my family’s lives. I lived with my mom and stepfather, older brother and younger brother most of my life, until I moved in with my auntie and uncle and their kids. I moved in with my auntie and uncle when I was 12 years old, do to family reasons. My real dad left my life when I was real young I did get to still see and talk to him until I was around 7 years old.

When I was younger I had a hearing aid most of my life until I was in grade 11. I no longer needed it. I had no idea that you can get your hearing back, just by not being sick and stressed all the time.

 At my auntie’s and uncle’s house we have 3 dogs named Jax, Gus and Sunshine and a cat named Maverick. Jax and Gus are Chihuahua mix, Sunshine is Miniature pincher a Pomeranian. In June of 2024, I moved into my own apartment just in front of my auntie’s and uncle’s house. I moved into the House of Clans. It is a new building that was built on the Nation land in Sechelt. I got a one-bedroom apartment on the top floor with ocean view.  

I like to go to concerts, travel and hang out with friends and family. In October of 2023, I went to Mexico for two weeks. We have family friends who own a house out there. We first started in Cancun and we stayed there for 2 nights. Then we made are way to Chacalal, and we stayed there for about 4 days. The rest of our stay we spent in Bacalar at our family friend’s house. From there we did day trips to small towns in the area. 

When I get the time, I would like to travel to India. I would like to visit India because I have friends from there. It would be nice to see their culture and try different foods.

I would like get my ECE Degree after I am done doing my upgrading program. I like to work with kids. In the last few summers, I have worked at a daycare and also worked at a summer day camp with the Nation where I am from. When I am older and have a bigger house, I would like to ran my own daycare one day.

I do work at Marks part time while going to school. I have been working there for about 2 years now. I do like working at Marks because it’s not really stressful as it was working at the grocery store next door to Marks. The customers aren’t as rude and it’s not busy like the grocery store was. Getting off two hours earlier in the evening is better then getting off at 9:45 from the grocery store.