I want to become a Pub Quiz champion

I went on a great ghost tour on Wednesday night. Becca is really into ghosts, as is another girl from IFSA, Sarah. And they introduced me to Fernanda, who also went with us. It was a tour of the underground vaults of Edinburgh. Apparently some underground tunnels were built back when they were building a bridge a long time ago. They were first used for storage for the many businesses along the street, but I guess they kept flooding so all of the vendors moved all there stuff out of there and the tunnels were abandoned. Then people started living down there. Living in the dark. Our guide turned out all the lights to show us how dark it would be. You couldn't see anything at all. And it's pretty wet down there too. Something's always dripping. Anyway, since they didn't have to pay rent people started living down there. And dying down there. Eventually the police wisened up and kicked most people out. Then in the 80s, I think, some guy bought the vaults for really cheap and now tours go down there all the time. Ghost tours included. So we went down there and he told us all about the tunnels and told us some ghost stories about the ghosts who live there. Then he gave us some EMF (Electromagnetic Frequency) meters to play with. They're supposed to detect ghosts. We got to wander the tunnels by ourselves and see if we could find any activity.

I wasn't sure if mine was working, because you're supposed to be able to test it with your cell phone, and mine could barely pick up my phone when I put it near the meter. So we wandered off, avoiding the corners of the vaults because we were scaredy cats. But then my meter started ticking. Slowly at first, and then it got more and more frequent. I was holding it completely still. This lasted for about a minute and then the ticking started slowing down again. And stopped. I had called all the girls I was with to come listen to it. We're convinced it was a ghost. Funny thing is, I wasn't scared. Not really at all. I believe in ghosts, for the most part. Maybe it's silly, but I don't think it's too silly to believe that souls get trapped here when their bodies die. After we gathered back up as a group, our guide took us into a room where he told us there was a little boy ghost who liked to try and hold peoples hands and follow the tour groups with children. He had us put our EMF meters on the floor to see if they would pick up him running around, but nobody's did. As we were leaving the room, my meter started ticking again. Really fast, and then as I was leaving the room it got slower and slower. Maybe he was trying to follow me, but can't leave that room. The tour was really fun, we're planning on going on more for sure. Becca wants to find one where you stay overnight or go really late or something. That would totally work for me. I love being scared. As long as I wasn't doing it alone, I could do it.

On Tuesday night, we went to our first Pub Quiz. We were terrible, we came in last place out of five teams. But it was for charity, it was for one called Mary's Meals. They provide school lunches and breakfasts to low income kids in primary (elementary) schools. It was donation only, it was nice. All of the questions were children oriented, like children's literature, children's TV, etc. I think we were so bad because we had no British people in our group. Our team was all IFSA girls: me, Becca, Amanda and Julia (Julia number 4 here, there are so many here!). So there would be questions about British children's TV, and we had absolutely no idea. But the category we totally owned at? Disney songs! They would sing some lyrics, and we had to complete them. We rocked it. Becca had just watched Pochantes super recently, so that helped alot. We're actually going to another Pub Quiz to benefit Amnesty International tonight, a girl I met at ChocSoc is doing the questions, she says it will be really good. I hope we do better than on Tuesday.

After the Pub Quiz was over, we went to Cupcake Decorating with ChocSoc. There were alot of people there, so it was hard to talk to people. We mostly just stayed in our group of Americans and Julia's (Julia number one, the one I know from high school) Dutch friend, Lara. They had some really good frosting that was chocolate and vanilla all in one frosting. Yummy.