U2 concert @ Giants Stadium

Last Thursday I had the chance of finally seeing live in concert U2.
It has been years since I have been wanting to see them live (something I didn't manage to do in 2005 when they went to Portugal), and when the New York date for the 360 Tour was announced, I made sure I got some tickets.My friend Lidia from Portugal was there with me.

I have always liked most of their songs, especially their greatest hits, but it was when I bought their Live at Slane Castle DVD, that I realized how amazing Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam are on stage. In my opinion they are currently the greatest rock band.

This week it was announced that they will be playing next year in Coimbra, Portugal, in the second part of the 360 tour.

The first part was done by Muse, which was a pleasant surprise.

Here are some pictures from where I was standing. You can see how impressive the 360 stage is.












Set list of the concert (9/24/2009 - Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey)

1. Breathe
2. Get On Your Boots
3. Mysterious Ways
4. Beautiful Day / She's A Rainbow (snippet) / Blackbird (snippet)
5. No Line On The Horizon
6. Magnificent
7. Elevation
8. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet)
9. Unknown Caller
10. Until The End Of The World
11. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. Mofo (snippet) / City Of Blinding Lights
14. Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)
15. Crazy Tonight / Miss You (snippet)
16. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
17. MLK
18. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
19. One / Amazing Grace (snippet)
20. Where The Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)

Encore(s):

21. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
22. With Or Without You
23. Moment of Surrender

Happy Hour Picture

Last Thursday during Happy Hour, we had a professional photographer taking interesting picture of the students.
Here's a small sample.

California baby!!!!

After the intense week of Orientation, Jane, Ross and I decided we need a break!
California was the place to go....with a small stop in Nevada to visit Las Vegas :)

Ross and Jane by the Hard Rock Cafe at the Universal Studios in Hollywood

Too cool for LA!!!

Universal Studios, in Hollywood

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, by Steven Spielberg's start

The hands of Arnold Schwarzenegger, in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood

Jane and I with the Hollywood sign in the back

The Californian Summer fires are infamous, and when we were in LA, the fires were some of the worst in years. Everywhere we would see clouds of smoke around LA.

The famous Hollywood sign in Los Angeles

Los Angeles
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Bathing in Malibu Beach, California

For a while, I was Mitch Buchanan from Baywatch, and the lives of everyone at Malibu beach depended on me!

Dolphins passing by Malibu (click on the picture to make it larger, and see them in the yellow circle I added)

Jane and Ross flying high (Malibu Beach)

Spreading my wings (Malibu Beach)

Late in the afternoon in Malibu Beach

Sunset in Malibu Beach

Santa Monica peer in California, by night

The Ferris Wheel in Santa Monica Peer

Outside the New York, New York Hotel in Las Vegas with its own mini-replica of Manhattan

The Paris Hotel, with its own replica of the Eifell Tower

Outside the Belaggio Hotel, during their beautiful watershow.


Partying at Pure Club, inside Caesar's Palace

Jane and Ross by the fountain of Caeser's palace hotel

Jane inside the Venetian hotel, which replicates the canals and streets of Venice inside the hotel

Ross by the pool of the hotel where we stayed in Vegas, the Luxor hotel, inspired in Egyptian themes (like you can see the hotel is in the shape of a pyramid)

This is in San Francisco, and I will tell you later why I was making that expression and Ross was so happy...

Chinatown in San Francisco

Wine tasting in Sonoma Valley

The vineyards in Sonoma Valley, California

Getting back from Sonoma Valley, and approaching the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

Dinner at the Hashbury Haight area of San Francisco (place of the hippie movement in the 60s)

Orientation

After a great experience last January, I decided to be a Peer Advisor again, and help the school run orientation for 1st year MBA students. It was total madness from August 19th (when orientation for international students started) until the 28th.

I will leave you just a great video that summarizes the experience we all had:

One week in Portugal

Back in March, when I was trying to organize my Summer calendar, I knew that between the end of my internship and the start of MBA for 1st year students (for which I had to be here, because I was helping organize it), I would only have one week. So the question was, is it long enough to go to Portugal and spend that much money on a plane ticket...
The conclusion was that a Summer without being in Portugal in August, going to the beach there and bathe in the cold water and have some grilled sardines with corn bread at night, would not be a real Summer. So I decided to go!
Due to time constraints, I had to rush in everything I did, and did have much time to be with friends. However, some of my family from Canada was there for their holidays, and we decided to take one day to go to Vale do Douro, the valley where the vineyards for Port Wine are located, and do a boat cruise there.

The boat docks in Peso da Regua

The "stairway" vineyards along the Douro Valley

The connection system in one of the dams

My aunt, uncle and cousins

End of Summer

Hello everyone,

I deeply apologize for my lack of posts.
Since the end of my internship things have been so busy that I haven't had the right mindset to write here.
These are the main things that happened between then and now:
- end of internship
- one week (only) of holidays in Portugal
- one week and a half of orientation for 1st year MBA students (yes, I was a Peer Advisor again)
- one week of travelling in California (Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco)
- two weeks to settle down at school and try to understand what I have to do

I am going to make some posts about some of these events and show you some pictures.

BTW, altough it is a beautiful day outside, the temperatures have started falling this week. The Summer seems to have come to an end, and Fall is here.