Allright Penny,here's my report: it's almost midnight. I did 700 grains for you. Tomorrow I'll take some rice, count each grain up to 700 ( ) and will describe you how that looks. 3 missers, level 27, whatever that means.It was fun.
its a great site isn't it? i've shared it with several of my knitting BB's,
Last week (no make that the week before thanksgiving week) there was a blurb and link about the site on the Evening news with katie couric.. (her kids are word nerds.. once, when she was a guest on the Tonight show, she mentioned one of her kids learned the word, callipygian, a word i first learned here (from tsumw))
its a great site isn't it? i've shared it with several of my knitting BB's,
Last week (no make that the week before thanksgiving week) there was a blurb and link about the site on the Evening news with katie couric.. (her kids are word nerds.. once, when she was a guest on the Tonight show, she mentioned one of her kids learned the word, callipygian, a word i first learned here (from tsumw))
well, knit one purl two. Looks like 6 degrees of separation is alive and knitting. This site test really stimulates the intuitive gland. I'm gonna send a 25 lb. bag of rice and keep playing
If you click on "more" at the bottom of the Freerice screen, it takes you to the FAQ, which explains interesting things, such as sponsorship and what the levels mean. I like these folks.
"it's especially fun to do with friends, all standing around debating the words. on T-day, we got to level 49! "
I learned about it from a colleague the day before Thanksgiving and got to level 45 in about 15 minutes. I then passed the URL on to my spawn who each got a kick from it. Usually we play pictionary, but maybe this xmas we'll do that and intersperse it with some freerice. Good idea.
Here are 700 grains alongside a normal pencil. We have to make some thousands each to get something substancial together,I fear.I'll pass it on to friends and fam.
It's a lot of fun but the web site itself is so unreliable that I often have to hit reload or back up and enter my choice again. Do any of you also experience this problem>
Coincidences in figures. I'm at 4440 grains. My actual resumed voc.level is 40. My best level is 44. 4440 grains is approx. 6x700 grains. Seen my 700 in the cup-measure glass, I guess it's close to a quarter cup. But a million quarter cups make a lot of cups. It's a super word training tool.
Welcome Skriveyn I was briefly at 46 and make it only to 4?? grains but my coffee break was over and I didn't think my boss would accept free rice as an excuse.