Hole in my life

I’ve been reading the book Hole in my Life. This book is an autobiography about the author Jack going to jail. In the book he begins talking about his life as a teenager. He describes how he went to different high schools.

His junior year his family moved to Puerto Rico. He had to quit school because his family couldn’t afford a english speaking school. Jack began working at a hotel wiring electricity. He had to learn very quickly how to wire the rooms. He was given one of the hotel rooms to live in. During the evenings he would leave the hotel to go down the street to his parents apartment for dinner and to have his clothes washed. While staying alone in the hotel he gained many freedoms. Lots of the other workers befriended jack and soon began teaching him how to gamble and even let him drink some.
After awhile Jacks family decided it would be best to send him back to the states to live with a family so he could finish high school. He began high school as a senior. Jack was living with the Bacon family. The family welcomed him into their home because he would bring in some extra cash. Jack began coming home very late, he would be extremely intoxicated. After a night of vomiting all over the house the Bacon family kicked him out. As a last resort Jack found an old motel to live in where he befriended the owner.
Jack enjoyed reading and writing and it helped him get through bad times. Through the book he uses stories from his books to relate to whatever he is doing.

Towards the middle of the story jack moves to an island near the Virgin islands to live with his family. Jack was very excited to move to the island to make extra cash to save up to go to college. When he moved to the islands he was surprised to find out that he wouldn’t be making any cash and there was racial tension everywhere.

Jack began working with his father making crates, they were paid in room and board. While working he meets a man named Rik. Rik has lots of hash “weed” that he needs to send to New York. Rik has jack build him a crate with a secret compartment to hide the hash.

Rik asks Jack to take a journey with him and another man and this is where I’ve stopped reading so far.