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XXVII CONVENTION DE JUEGO DE MESA Y COMICS ~
[Monterrey (Cintermex)-Mexico]
I was invited as special
guest at the "XXVII Convention de Juego de Mesa y Comics"
held in Monterrey (Mexico) on 5-6 November 2005. When I recived
the invitation I couldn't believe it: previous special guests
invited at this event was people like Sean Austin and Kristanna
Loken! Wow! I had my first apparence in Mexico, in front of a
thousand mexican fans and it was one of the most "cool"
experience I've had in my life. Mexico is great and mexican people
too! I have had a lot of fun with cosplay, tacos and lucha libre!
Eheh! So, here it is, day by day, a report with photos of the
event. Enjoy! |
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October 2005 - 1 November 2005 Italian girl in New York! I left from Roma Fiumicino airport with a direct flight to New York City. I decided to stay in New York City for 5 days and participate in the Halloween parade. Finally I have seen the "Big Apple"! The first thing I've done when I reached the shores of NY City was buying a wool scarf, hat and gloves at the Billabong store: I love winter but it was so cold! I spent all the days running up and down the whole Manhattan. Liberty Island, Central Park, Brooklin's Bridge, Ground Zero, Avenue of the Americas, Hooters (!!!) Flatiron Building and so on... I visited all the places I have always seen on movies! |
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2005 This was my first day at the convention. At 12.00 am I had my first apparence in public with an autograph session. For this occasion I worn my most popular costume, Francoise from Cyborg 009. Oh my god, I never imagined that there was so much people interested to get and autograph from me. Ahah! It was so fun! I felt like a hollywood superstar! :P And oh yeah, the organizer provided to me and Adella two big guys that escorted us around the convention area: yeahhh I've got bodyguard too! In the morning I changed my costume into Pretty Cure cosplay (the one I've done for the World Cosplay Summit 2005), I had another autograph session and after that I was judge at the Iron Cosplay contest. |
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November 2005 That was the great day! For the main event I made one of my "dream costumes". I was having this one on my "upcoming list" for a long time but I hadn't any time to make it: I was MORRIGAN from Darkstalkers! I love so much the final result and how it fits on me! At 9.30 I had a tasty breakfast into the Cintermex guest lobby with the VIP members. I spent some minutes talking and taking some photos with them. At 13.00 I met Alechan, Alin and her boyfriend (sorry dude, I don't remember your name... ^^;) and Paula. We had fun doing photoshoots 'cuz we decided times ago to do a Darkstalkers group. And all of them were sooo nice in these costumes! Great job guyzz! At 14.00 I was judging at the Cosplay Dance show and at 15.00 I had my conference in front of hundreds of people. It was my first conference and I was a bit nervous and worried but all the fans were very kind. The conference was a Q&A with the audience and they asked me about a lot of things! They asked me in spanish and Alechan, that was the hostess of the conference, had translated to english for me. When the time for questions was over, people asked me to pose for photos: I had a lot of flashes in front of me! After the conference I had my last autograph session. There was so many people in queue, and I finished my promocards for autographs before the closing of the session: in 2 days I've signed around 300 promo cards! In the late evening there was the main cosplay contest: there was around 120 cosplayers attendants and I was judge of the contest with Kyle and Adella. When I was walking out of the office to reach the judge stage, the audience started yelling my name, flashing the cameras at me and Adella, and showing up papers to sign... Oh my God, it was so unreal! I still can't believe that I was so welcome in Mexico! As for the contest itself there was so many cosplayers and all of them was so great with good performance and accurate costumes. It was so hard choose only 4 winners. After the end of the contest, Robert and Sammy, the two bodyguard, escorted us to the hotel. I was very tired, the whole day was so excited and I've met a lot of nice people that gave me a lot of fun at the event. |
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November 2005 HASTA LUEGO! Thanks
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