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What a weekend!
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U2 came to London and performed at Wembley Stadium on Friday and Saturday night.
The new Wembley stadium is an impressive, huge structure but U2 filled the space. In fact, with nearly 90,000 fans attending on Friday, I heard a record was broken for the number of people at the stadium.
Staff from the ONE office in London, including myself, came out in force to help Weldon and the other volunteers recruit new members.
It was really tiring but super rewarding. I had all sorts of interesting converstions with people including one who wanted to drive a jeep full of goods to an as yet unspecified village in Africa. There was also a couple from Belgium for example, with whom I managed to practice my French and try talking about ONE in another language!
The latest I’ve heard is that all the hard work of the volunteers paid off with nearly 4,000 people signing up and joining ONE during the two London shows.
Now there’s only a few more shows to go over here and then the tour goes State side…
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19/08/2009 at 9:01 am
I had a really wonderful time signing people up and I would volunteer for ONE in a heartbeat. Just let me know where and when!