Monterrey, Mexico.

here all is well. the bus was/is nice, except for the little detail that it broke down in san marcos, tx and we were waiting all night for another one that was coming from laredo, tx...in the meantime they had the great idea to put on movies, except that they were all in english without subtitles, so i don't know how many people were doing more than just watching images! (it's a Mexican bus)
finally at 6am, after having tried to make the bus run a gazillion times (which means doing 1 km on the highway, stopping on the side for 10 minutes, ...each time..) at 6am the new bus came to our rescue and brought up to laredo, tejas
we got on a mexican "Conejo", which is a bus a little smaller and quite crappier (not complaining, just describing), and then drove through the border. we got stopped by the mexican customs police, and they had a brilliant idea: since you guys have so much luggage and you're late and you wanna get going, we propose to you that if you pay 10$ EACH we will not check anything...(way to go, i feel much safer now)...of course me and other people refused to, so they got every single item out of the conejo and searched the ones that didn't want to pay...hahah but it was fine, then we got here at around 12:30 noon that is...then i messed up with the buses and got to R's house, very nice people.
the university is a polytechnic, and it's nice and full of foreign students from europe and guys with soccer jerseys...i am at their lab now...i also got to walk around and it was so much fun!
now i can see it through the eyes of the gringos, sort of, and i can see them saying: it's dirty, noisy, loud, unsafe, and whatnot...but guess what, so is italy then, and it's really fun anyway!
i got a "paleta", and i loved it, and i will get more tomorrow! a paleta is a homemade popsicle, with fruit and water in the same thing! haha :)
tomorrow i am definitely checking out the veggie restaurant that's on the lonely planet, easily the only one in town...and then the next day is Saltillo...