Unlimited Voices, Vol. 84

UNLIMITED VOICES

Reflections and Stories from the Members of Envision Unlimited

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cycling the Track

THE VELODROME

By Charles A.

Charles’ Entertainment Review

I Was Born Again

There was a lot of people there David and Mark were there Different staff showed up. We had sandwiches. They gave us headbands and a cup. I went around the track. I like the bikes. I rode the mountain bike, the new one. I wore a Westtown helmet, then new one I like the food I like the velodrome. They were nice to us. I went. Jason drove us. One of the Envision Unlimited vans. I like the flags. I like the scenery. I like the swimming pool. I didn’t see Marty. She didn’t show up. It was fun! I want to do it again.

A Glance at Westtown

JEWELRY

By Ruth M.

Making jewelry. Making earrings. Making bracelet. A neckalce.

MARQUETTE PARK FIELD HOUSE

By Jamie P.

I went to Marquette park field house softball competition play softball we beat Kosciusko park First time we play instead Bessemer park second time I was confused and embarrassed got me emotional I didn’t hit the softball right I lose my mind didn’t know what we had medals my coaches had a beautiful gold medal . Got me shocked to me. Be happy

AWAKENING

By Steven B.

I saw Puerto Rican Indians. It was good! They were singing and talking. It was delicious. And it was great. They call it Taíno Areyto. It was a traditional dance through the spirit. “Oh-ha!” It means the deer, like the animal. The war was started with a dance that create. They kind of do the frog too, the frog spirit. It was packed with a lot of people. A lot of kids too. Big kids, little kids, teenagers, college It was all for students I just watched them sing I march and sing with them They ask and I raised my hand

MARCH

By Mario L.

Singers. Dancing. Be happy. His name is Jose. The Puerto Rican parade Diversey I like the people. Around the circle, straight. Walk straight. Singing in the throat. I sing with them and Jose. Jamie, Jose, and Anthony New Channel 9! Step feet, marches.

J.J. DILLON CHARLES' ENTERT

He was a champion. His nickname is Nitro. He’s president of the company. I like Mean Gene. He died. He’s gone now. I like the theme music. He’s a great boss One of the Four Horsemen I like the suits I like his suits I like his robes He gets awards for the Hall of Fame. He has a wife and kids. Charlotte’s his daughter. I like the limo. He did Wrestlemania. I like his entrance. I like his robes. They call him Slick Rick I like his rings I like his belt I like his tie. I said “hi.” He’s Nature Boy.

HULK HOGAN

Hulk Hogan was is No Holds Barred There are a lot of swear words in that movie He’s a wrestler He was TNA I like Dixie Carter I like the music I like his theme music They call him Rip. Tom Lister Jr. is Zeus. Rip wants to fight Zeus in the wrestling match. He has a boss. He has a contract against him. He puts the contract in his mouth. He jumps out the limo. I like the fans. I like his wife. He’s married. He has a wife. I think he’s an icon. He’s married. Sky Daily is his wife. I like Brooke She’s a singer She has one album I got it at home I like his interviews He says bye to Mean Gene He rips his shirt off, tears it off They call him Hollywood now Hollywood

Hogan. He’s a great boss. A good actor too. I like his muscles. He’s a body builder too. Venice Beach, that’s where he’s from I like the house A great champion I like his beard They got a fight I like the theme music He did the Rocky movie with Sloane

AINMENT REVIEW

AWESOME KONG

I like her costume. I like her makeup. Big muscles. She’s got big muscles. She’s from Detroit. She’s on TNA. She’s a diva I like her clothes I like her makeup She has a manager. I like her muscles. I like her theme music. I like her hairdo. Her name is Gail Kim. She’s married to Robert Irvine. She’s tough. A great champion. I like their belts She does karate She from Toronto I like her hair She can fight. I like her clothes. I like her hairdos. I like all the divas. I like her costume. I like her theme music. I like the stadium. They travel a lot. I like her muscles. Happy Holidays to all the wrestlers.

MR. ROGERS

He died. He passed away. I like his suits. I like his sweaters. I like the trolly. It’s mechanical. I like the cast. I like the way he starts the show He welcomes us to his neighborhood He’s a great gentleman. I like the puppets. He met Lou Ferrigno. Ferrigno was the Incredible Hulk. He has all this makeup on. Bill Bixby directed it. Mr. Roger’s grandmother made those sweaters He plays piano He brings props to the set, like puppets I like the trolly He sings He died February 27, 2003 He was a legend. I’m gonna miss that guy.

I WAS BORN AGAIN BY ERNEST ROWE

I was 14 years old. I heard that I was going to the store by myself. That’s when I got hit by a car. I don’t remember nothing, but I do remember waking up in Sycamore State Hospital.

It was great when I was little, growing up. It was good, but I was bad. I went to school, but I didn’t like school because I wanted to be outside. I wanted to be outside doing bad things. It was fun to me! I loved it. I used to do all kinds of stuff…trying to gangbang, steal. I was so bad. I was heading for death. And God had to stop me before someone else stopped me for good.

When I woke up in the hospital, I had a sheet over me and was in a dark room. They put me in the basement. I tried to go to the bathroom, and I fell and realized I couldn’t walk. I pulled myself up using the bed. I looked under the sheets of the bed next to me, and there was a dead body under there! I was in the morgue. The doctors were looking for me to die.

I thought I was dead until I crawled out of the room. They saw me, grabbed me, put me in a wheelchair, and hooked me up to some tubes. They said they weren’t looking for me to make it. There was “nothing else that they could do.” They were gonna leave it up to God. When they said I would never walk again, I told them, “Let me die.” And they said I refused to die. My body wouldn’t die. God didn’t want me to die.

I didn’t know what happened to me. I didn’t know I got hit by a car. I thought the reason I couldn’t walk and was in the hospital was because someone beat me up or shot me up because I was so bad! When they told me I got hit by a car, I didn’t believe it! Because I didn’t remember. And I still don’t remember.

After I got out of the hospital, I went to therapy. I had to relearn how to walk, how to talk, how to eat, everything. Now, I can live. I can work, cook, ride a bike, make art. When I was in the hospital, they told me I would never walk. But I walked. When I first started learning how to walk, people used to say, “baby’s first steps.” Sometimes I say things, and people still don’t understand me. Some people treat me the same. Some people treat me differently. They try to take it easy on me. People that I don’t know, people that never met me before. They know I got hit by a car by the way I walk, the way I limp. To me, there ain’t nothing wrong with me. I limp when I walk because I got hit by a car.

One of my friends, we were doing the same bad stuff – gangbanging, stealing. And he got killed. Me getting hit by a car was God’s way of showing me I would’ve been dead because of the way I was, how bad I was. God stopped me before someone else stopped me for good. Don’t do bad and don’t do wrong if you want to live a good life. If I didn’t get hit by a car, I would be living a life I don’t want to live…or not living a life at all.

Getting hit by a car saved my life. I was born again.