Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Two mental challenges for myself

1. I want to learn all the countries of the world by name and know where they are in the world. I'll give myself one week to accomplish this task.

2. I want to begin honing my observation skills and eye for detail. I think a good way to start is to learn botany and specifically in flowers (since I've always been sucha girly girl and like flowers) I will start learning the names of common and uncommon flowers in BOTH English and Chinese, so that whenever I see a flower, I can confidently rattle off its name. I probably won't learn the scientific name though, that would be a bit too much for this novice in botany.

9 comments:

wendy said...

em, since you gave yourself a timeframe for the first item, i'm 99% certain that it won't happen.

i'd happily beg you $10 and check back with you this sunday to see whether you've succeeded! How about we set up a test session this Sunday and I ask you 5 countries' neighboring country?

Emily said...

Oooh a challenge!!! Bring it on baby!

wendy said...

Alright em! Let's say this Sunday(5/14) night 11pm East coast time?

Here's how it'll work(let me know if you disagree). I'll pick 5 countries in the world and for each of them, I will ask you 2 neighboring countries(assuming they have 2 neigboring countries connected to them. e.g. I won't ask you Australia). If you get all of them correct(baby, that's 10 countries in total), then you win.

What do you say? Are we on?

Grayson said...

I'll give her $100 bucks is she wins.

Emily said...

Jason, you are going to be my slave for life, remember?

I think bets are fun. You're on Wendy!

wendy said...

Alright!

Emily said...

Question: Am I allowed to use a blank map?

Grayson said...

NO! You don't get anything. You get your fingers.

wendy said...

a blank map? of course not! that's the whole point emily!