Hey! I am Savannah Kallam, I am a Sophomore at Morehead High School in Eden NC and I live in Stokesdale NC. I am an only child and I live with my dad. I just turned 16 and got my license, and I drive a 2010 White Honda Civic. I have a very close and wonderful relationship with my father who I have lived with for nine months. Even on bad days, I have never been so happy in my entire life. I am so blessed and truly appreciate everything that’s been given to me. I am a very organized and neat person. I’m always the one making the plans and ensuring that they go correctly and cleaning up after everyone. I spend the majority of my time with my best friend Katie Chambers. She and I are very close and are more like sisters. We enjoy listening to music and finding new songs, remixes, and mashups to listen to. We also enjoy going to concerts and shows, and making as many plans and doing as much as possible without our parents grounding us. When I’m not with Katie, much of my time is spent with my boyfriend of eight and a half months Chaz Blackwell. He is a drummer in a band and a senior in High School.

I am not very sure of what I want to do with my future. I haven’t had the easiest times in the past few years, I moved out of my mom’s where I had lived my whole life and now I don’t have the best or closest relationship with my mother. I’m not sure where I want to go to college or what I want to major in and that kind of worries me because people ask all of the time and I never know what to say to them. All of my friends know what they want to do, I don’t. Making other people happy, like my friends and family and boyfriend makes me happy, but that tends to get me taken advantage of and in the end I get hurt. I have a hard time trusting people because of it. I am very tenderhearted and always put everything I can into every relationship that I am in, whether it be a friendship or more. That also tends to get me hurt, because not many people put as much into the relationship as me. I don’t have a filter on my mouth, 95% of the time; if I think it... I say it. It’s hardly ever a good thing and it gets me in trouble all of the time. I have to have structure and a plan. I hate not knowing how things are going to play out because it stresses my dad out and then he stresses me out. I have a bad habit of keeping things bottled up until I can’t take it anymore and then I break down for about an hour and then I’m fine again. It’s a crazy and unhealthy cycle. I try to be what everyone wants me to be and I constantly disappoint them. Photography is really the only thing that I feel like I am passionate about, it’s the only thing I could see myself doing with my life.

I look forward to being involved in this program and learning more about everyone and different environments.

6 Word Memoir: A Mother’s love, was never felt.

Here is the LINK to my photo essay.