WSA 2009 in Monterrey - Mexico

From September 2nd to 6th I have been in Monterrey Mexico, where I have presented videos of the worlds best multimedia projects. I have spend more than one month producing and editing the winning projects.  It was very nice to meet all pro producers from all over the world. I have been very inspired by the World Summit Youth Award Winners (WSYA) especially seeing how much the young people care about our planet.

We stayed in the Holiday Inn in the Fududora park. It used to be a big steel factory and some of the metal structures have been kept and used as museums and conference centers. The place was quite strange and I did not feel at all that Im in Mexico. Locals told me that Monterrey is the most american city in Mexico and I really felt like in California. The rainy period started so it was cloudy and partially rainy so it was not possible to see the surrounding high mountains.

After the conference I have stayed in a níce hostel in downtown with two WSYA winners - Andreas from Austria and Denis from Latvia. I met there Eliza (Eliska) - Slovak / Austrian girl who has been teaching English in Monterrey. Sicne none of us spoke Spanish it was very good to have a local guide. Especially for me it was very difficult to find and order some vegetarian food. All restaurants have only meet and the only no meet think I could get were casadias - tortillas with cheese. It was strange for me that I can not find any vegetarian burritos in Mexico or at least get some beens and rice. The beens are always mixed with meat. But the fruits especially my favorite mangos are very cheap so I will not have to starve to death. 

Eliska took as for a hike to a national park Chipinque in the mountains. We were trying to find some waterfall, but before we could find it it started to ran so there was no need to look for the falling water. On Wednesday I took the overnight bus from Monterrey to Tampico. The bus cost 398 pesos and it was quite comfortable. I was a bit surprised that there were no bus stops and that only 3 people travelled with me. It took 7 hours to get to Tampico.