Unlimited Voices, Vol. 21

UNLIMITED VOICES Reflections and Stories from the Members of Envision Unlimited

TABLE OF CONTENTS Merry Christmas...

The Finest Article of Westtown

By William H. I had a good time. I got clothes, somebody gave me $10, and I cooked

...and a Happy New

dinner on Sunday. I made rice, corn bread, and some type of meat you put

Year!

in the oven. I cleaned the house - did my laundry... I didn't do too much of nothing because of Corona. I'd rather stay in because of the Corona keep going on. I'd rather be safe than sorry. I'm not going to church either. I called Clonita and wished her a happy birthday. Hopefully we can have a

A Glance at Westtown

better, safe, and happy new year, and Hannah can take us out more often.

I hope Westtown stays clean, we stay open, and we keep coming here to work. We appreciate Hannah being the boss here, all the TCs, all the Unit Coordinators, even Mirna, and Jason too. And Jimmy works hard

New Years Resolutions

too...everybody! All the janitors here work very hard.

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS? I wish my girlfriend a happy New Year. Fireworks. Like, Christmas Eve and something like that. Like trees up, lights up. And the whole thing, everything for the house for Christmas Eve. Food and stuff. Like Christmas party.

-Bernard H.

Christmas we get presents. Christmas we have ham and rice. We drink water, thirsty. New Years, stay home. My sister, my brother, my dad, my mom, my nephew, my niece. Fireworks in the sky. Stay home. Christmas Carols!

-Mario L.

For New Year, I'm gonna have eggnog. Celebrate the whole new year out. The old year out, the new year in, 2022. Drink eggnog, drink some champagne. Celebrate my birthday Friday January 14th.

-Lucy P.

Stay at home. Christmas shopping. Then I go home. Christmas gifts. The red bag, and the Christmas train. The Christmas train, the CTA train, is on the 16th and the 18th. For Christmas we're going to have turkey, ham, macaroni and cheese, pop, Christmas cookies.

-Rosa M.

Feed the homeless. The ones who got no homes. Feed them. Help them out. Feel happy to them. Feed them, bathe them, shoe shop struggles. People who don't got no homes. Help them be strong, help them out. A lot of people. Help them with their lives. The homeless down there, you help lift them up.

-Walter G.

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CLONITA'S CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY LETTER

By Clonita B. I had a good Christmas on my birthday. I went to the skating rink right there, the roller rink. My nephew was the Grinch. It's cool. I got some new clothes. My nieces and nephews got clothes too. I had some brownies, I had some chicken wings for dinner, spinach, and some white rice.

Happy New Year 2022. Bring in the new year. Hope this year will be very good for us, all of us at Westtown. I hope you enjoy the holidays like I am, and I hope everybody get to read it, and I hope everybody like it, like the Grinch! I love all my staff, I love all my training counselors, and I love all the clients. And I love my family, my whole entire family.

A RAINBOW CHRISTMAS

By Nikko T.

Color inside for Christmas. I make a rainbow for Christmas rainbow.

Holiday season.

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CHRISTMAS FAMILY

By Vahid M. Put up the Christmas lights, Christmas tree. Put the lights, put it on. For gifts, for Christmas tree. For Santa Claus, for snowman. Tell them "Happy Holiday" and "Happy New Year" and "Happy Christmas to you" and "Come and join us." You going to eat lunch together.

Chinese food, fries, and drink. And listening CD player.

The music for Christmas, Christmas station. The music station. You going to tell people, "Happy New Year" and "Happy Christmas." My cousin, he come visit. He visit some time, a couple months. He tell us, "What are you guys doing?" I talk about bicycle, about me, Anteneh, Christina, John. Fix the tire, take it off. The pumps. Maybe 10, maybe 15, maybe 5, maybe 20.

Christmas feeling pretty good. She's be fine. People share the Christmas tree.

CHRISTMAS

By Ruth M. and Rosa M. We had cookies, hot chocolate. We had Christmas gifts. We had hot chocolate and cookies. We watched a movie, The Grinch. We went shopping Sunday. Ruth says, "I got a hot latte. I got popcorn. We ate Chinese. Chicken, beef, egg rolls." Rosa says, "I had noodles. I had turkey and ham on the 23rd. I got a new coat."

We ate tamales.

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2022 NEW YEAR

By Lucy P. I'm going to Kruger next week. They'll probably have some snacks, maybe they'll watch a movie, go out to eat, socialize, get to meet people. Go to a movie, maybe to a concert. Doing fun activities. Maybe they'll have more work for me to do. I want to thank one of the staff for letting me come up there and spend some time up there. I like spending time with Marcos and doing things with him. I like going on walks and I like doing yoga like we do up here. I like to thank Marcos if he ever introduce me to his mom. I like being in his family. I like doing good things for him. I like being in his family some day.

DUNKIN' DONUT

By Alan K. I got the gift card from Christmas. And then yesterday I got a large black cup of coffee with sugar and one donut. It felt pretty good.

KEITH

By Jamie P.

MY NEW HAIR STYLE

By Sophia F.

Merry Christmas Keith. I am wishes you happiness in Heaven. Always love you in my heart. I never wanted be woman I use to be before. Right now I am happy who I am. Tell you

I got my hair done. My sister did it, Gabby. She

I do care about you lot. It times for me move on my life. It hard for me keep looking the picture of me and you together. Good memories. I felt sad because wanna live forever to be with you. I know you not here with me. I will stand up myself. I never forget up on you.

did braids. She picked it.

I feel happy when my sister do my hair.

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I LOVE CHRISTMAS WITH MY FAMILY

By Jamie P.

I had great day at Christmas Day. My sister gave me a diary and Juicy Couture perfume and Coach Dreams.

Really happy and my mom gave me a Bath & Body Works wash, like 5 perfumes and lotion, 4 body cream. My dad gave me a money that he got for me, a gift my half brother gave me, a warm big blanket with dog.

ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY

By Scott H. I got a new book. I went out for lunch on my birthday. I ate hamburger, french fry, and Coke. I had a good lunch. I got some Christmas presents. I hope I see my friend next year. I got a new sweatshirt, the Bears. I watched the football game.

I hope I have my birthday over here for next year. I'll be 60! 6-0!

Probably help my roommate.

Be healthier, eat salad.

-Rosa M.

Help him get his shoes on and

I want to have

walker ready.

my own family.

-Dwight

-Willie

Drive a PACE bus.

-Cody H.

I want things better

No cussing at the

for me. I want a life. I want to

workshop. I am trying to

do everything for the new year. I

stop cussing for the new

have a lot of things in the new year.

year. -Sophia

I hope I find a friend, well, a steady boyfriend, by new year.

-Lucy P.

My news years resolution is not to ask personal questions.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

I want to work and earn a bigger paycheck. A big one that I can't even cash!

-Clonita B.

-Tommy

Write in journal.

-Latoria J.

A resolution is something you want to do better in your life for yourself. To change your life around. Me and my sister - my resolution is I want to get baptized in the church again. Then maybe working a little harder at something. Try to keep the building cleaned up like I'm supposed to. Like a janitor, the lead janitor. Also when somebody's bothering me, I want to work on going outside and getting some air or going to the music room to calm down.

To have a better day. Wear a mask every day, stay away from germs, make sure you won't be sick, make sure you wash your hands four times, and be safe.

-Jamie

-William H.