HSPAs and "The Pit"

The HSPA State Test was this past week.
It was okay, I suppose.
They're real easy, but boring.
Since we had the first 2 days of the week off,
due to excessive snow,
the testing was shifted over to Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
as opposed to Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
So, the math section, which should have been Tuesday, was Friday.
They were impossibly easy, the questions.
The only issue was the timing.
There was a lot of time left after the persuasive essays-
we had an hour, and we're all used to half hour, like the SATs.
However, there was only 20 minutes for a picture prompt.
That was too short, by far.
No one can write a good story in twenty minutes!
So my beginning was great,
then I began to run short on time,
and had to quickly sum it up and end it.
I couldn't explain in detail any of the plot-
and I wrote up to the last line provided!
Other than that, though, the tests were fine.
The school day after was short, too, which was nice.
We only had six periods a day as opposed to eight, too.
It was nice to only have a few classes.
Much less overwhelming.
School should do that all the time-
four or five periods a day, but not all classes every day.
I believe the term is block-scheduling.

Today, my friend and I explored "The Pit."
What is the Pit, you ask?
An old factory and the grounds around it-
a huge sand pit with small scrubby trees and sand hills.
This was the first time I had been there.
It really looks just like a segment of Australian or African outback,
right smack in the middle of New Jersey.
It's a few miles across, diagonally.
There's also woods around it, too.
So we climbed the sand hills, scurried through the woods,
and enjoyed the wonderful day.

Yes, today and yesterday truly felt like Spring, finally!

Oh, that reminds me. Yesterday.
My 4-H group and I went to a state park.
We walked on the trails and took pictures-
we're a photography club, after all.
But, we didn't know that the path wasn't a loop.
We assumed it was-
all but that path were loops, after all.
Well, yay for the rangers not keeping up with trail markings.
After one and a half hours, we came to a dead end.
We had to turn around and walk straight back.
It was nice, though,
except the younger members complained a lot,
since we were walking so much.

So, overall, a very enjoyable week.
(But mostly, the weekend was the enjoyable part.)
^__^