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Author:  mdana [ Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:09 am ]
Post subject:  Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
Quote:
For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.


http://freerice.com/index.php

Good time killer, and improves your vocabulary. I just donated 5,000 grains in about 20 minutes. Not going to save the world, but it helps a little bit. Thanks. :thumbsup:
Author:  Anita Hussein Briem [ Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:26 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
I donated 10,000 grains a couple months ago. It's such an awful downer when the rice logo count returned to zero. I around 40 and worked up to 42 -- there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Author:  mdana [ Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
Angela Merkel wrote:
I donated 10,000 grains a couple months ago. It's such an awful downer when the rice logo count returned to zero. I around 40 and worked up to 42 -- there's still a lot of room for improvement.


That is still about 1 1/3 cups of rice which will feed some people. :thumbsup:
Author:  Anita Hussein Briem [ Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
mdana wrote:
Angela Merkel wrote:
I donated 10,000 grains a couple months ago. It's such an awful downer when the rice logo count returned to zero. I around 40 and worked up to 42 -- there's still a lot of room for improvement.


That is still about 1 1/3 cups of rice which will feed some people. :thumbsup:

:shades:
For the two hours that took, though, I'd rather just buy a shipment of rice for some village. :funny:
Author:  mdana [ Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
Angela Merkel wrote:
mdana wrote:
Angela Merkel wrote:
I donated 10,000 grains a couple months ago. It's such an awful downer when the rice logo count returned to zero. I around 40 and worked up to 42 -- there's still a lot of room for improvement.


That is still about 1 1/3 cups of rice which will feed some people. :thumbsup:

:shades:
For the two hours that took, though, I'd rather just buy a shipment of rice for some village. :funny:



What exactly are you doing? It took me about 40-45 minutes to donate over 10,000 grains, but I wasn't too particular about getting a good level. I think I tapped out around 39 and fell down to 34 quite often. Then I spent an hour and was really trying to learn words and got up to 44 and didn't fall below 39 very often. I still was able to get over 10,000 grains.

I like sudoku and word puzzles. So if you want to be more efficient and learn at a faster pace, alternate between a fast session, where you are being experienced to many words. Then a slower one where you are really moving from exposure to a deeper level of memory.
Author:  Anita Hussein Briem [ Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
Good idea, I'll give that a try. Vocabulary can do no harm, unless one is trying to explain how a caucus works to an English-challenged voter.

Edit: Is it just me, or are they giving twice as much rice now?
Author:  mdana [ Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
Angela Merkel wrote:
Good idea, I'll give that a try. Vocabulary can do no harm, unless one is trying to explain how a caucus works to an English-challenged voter.

Edit: Is it just me, or are they giving twice as much rice now?


Maybe they upped it at some point from 10-20 grains. It was in December I think.
Author:  Christian [ Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Free Rice To Help End World Hunger
Cool. In just 10 minutes of downtime, I donated 3400 grains.

I knew my knowledge of the word "ecru" would come in handy. ;)
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