Throwback to The Holes Book Chapter 1 to 30

The Holes Summary (Chapter 1 – 30)

*On the past few weeks, my class and I which is Ibu Megan's class were assigned to read a book about holes and here is my summary of the holes from chapter 1 - 30.

Stanley moves towards the court and listens to the judge choices. The judge said, “You have 2 choices! The first one is to go to prison and the second one is to go to camp green lake.” Stanley directly thought that obviously camp green lake is better than prison. He took the second choice, which is to go to camp green lake. He packed his things and went to the camp. He rode the police bus and on the way to Camp Green Lake. He was just staring on the environment around him. He arrived and he was just shocked by the dry and hot lake. He was being introduced by the camp people and explained about what he should do there.

Everyday he made new friends and getting used to his new environment. Day by day he dig holes and got stronger and stronger as he keep digging deep holes. Everyday he always being reminded by the warden and Mr. Sir that they dig holes to build characters. On the first few days of Stanley, he always believed that it’s not his fault to be on Camp Green Lake as it was his ugly rotten great – great – grandfather’s faults.

Stanley’s great – great grandfather is Elya Yelnats. When Stanley was a boy, his great - great grandfather exchange for a promise with Madame Zeroni. The deal was to carry Madame Zeroni up to the mountain and sing the song that was taught by her and after he did that, he will get the pig. Elya broke the promise and he believed that he was cursed by Madam Zeroni as he broke the promise and the curse passed down to Yelnats family and one of the victim of the curse is Stanley Yelnats him selves.

            Along time ago before Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake specifically one hundred and ten years ago, Green Lake is a beautiful town with blooming peach trees. On that town, there was a teacher called Katherine Barlow who falls in love with a black man called Sam the onion seller.  At that time, there’s a law that a black man can’t kiss a white woman, as it’s inappropriate back then. They ignored that law and kiss each other. Trout Walker who was the richest man on that town mad at them as he already falls in love with Katherine. Trout spread the words to the villagers and they start to attack the school that Katherine worked on and Sam. Katherine directly knew the attack and ran to the sheriff to find help.

Eventually, the sheriff was also tries to attack Sam. Katherine and Sam ran away from the attack by boat but it was to late and the attackers could catch the boat and killed Sam. Katherine gone wild and killed the sheriff. After that incident, Katherine was considered as an outlaw called Kissin’ Kate Barlow. From the time Sam was killed, there was no rain came down from the sky on Green Lake and the lake dries out.

As Katherine Barlow was now an outlaw, he kept robbing people and one of the victims was Stanley’s great grandfather. She stole his money and buried that in to the ground. Charles Walker and his wife tried to find out where the money was but it was to late as Katherine Barlow died before anyone knew where the money was.

The town keeps drying from time to time and at the same time, the town became a death town. Stanley always had a hard time digging the holed as he was digging on a dry and hard surface with an incredibly hot environment. Stanley became best friends with X-ray as he was the head of the camp. He even ever gave a precious thing he found to X-ray so he could get a break. As day-by-day Stanley went through, he met a new best friend, which is Zero. Zero really wanted to learn how to read and they made a deal. Zero will dig some of Stanley’s holes and Stanley will teach Zero how to read. That way was just fine until Zig Zag was disturbing Stanley. They finally fight and Zero chocked Zig Zag as Zero was trying to save Stanley.

The camp crew gathered and finally the teaching trading was revealed. One of the camp crew called Mr. Pendanski teased Zero as he thinks that there’s no way that Zero could study stuff because he was so stupid. Zero was really mad at that time and smashed Mr. Pendanski face with a shovel until he was unconscious. Zero was ordered to come to the warden’s office as he was in a big trouble. While Zero was away, the warden still expects the group to keep digging 7 holes even though Zero was away.

GJIS Cultural Exchange Program 2014

In the year 2014, Global Jaya International School held a cultural exchange program to Azerbaijan. The school had plan this program from April 2014. From the beginning of the program, I've joined the practices and meeting. I would say that I never miss any practice or briefing that was held for this program. The first thing that we did was joining the audition. The audition was about knowing our skills and ability so the instructors could know who dance what and who sing what. The second thing that we did was to know each other. We get to know who were the supervisors for this program, the instructors, and who among our school mate join this program.

Day by day I was joining the practice with full excitement and commitment. One day, Ibu Rasti (one of the GJISCEP supervisor) chose me to be the Documentation Director of this year's GJISCEP. I was really happy at that time because one of my hobby is to create videos. Having one more position means that more work should be done. Almost every tuesday and thursday, we went home really late. We practiced 2 hours per day and 2 times per week and as time goes on, we practice 2 hours per 2 week days and 4 hours per 1 week end. So in 1 week, we practiced around 8 hours. As time goes on, the D day was getting closer. We practice more and more to achieve a good result. Besides that practice time, I also need to consult about the documentary that I worked on to the advisors which was Ibu Rasti. Almost every once a week I consult to her and talk about the documentary. It's a lot of work but I believed that there's a good result coming if you worked hard on it.