We woke up on Monday the 19^th to an 8:30 breakfast and a roll out after.

It was at breakfast when our liaison Tracey came up to ask “do her a favour” (and we couldn’t say no) to do a VTV exclusive over the road at what we can only assume used to a hotel pool, nek minute green pond with accompanying gondola ride.

On arrival we were forcefully instructed by Tracey to have fun and smile and say “everything is nice” and that we all “love the serenading Vietnamese music”.

After ten minutes of said music Tracey asked for someone to “volunteer” to try and sing a “line” of the music.

So in true dictator fashion we made the youngin’s rock off to determine the lucky girl. Luck was on Karley’s side and she started to sweat bullets. So up she went to take her place front and centre. Tracey then wanted some backup dancers so the other 2 were forced to participate alongside. Nikki willingly took her place whereas Bec Reeve was somewhat reluctant.

Once in place the Vietnamese lady came over to teach the “line” nek minute paragraph to Karley. Safe to say more bullets were sweat and tears were shed in laughter (especially from Loz and Walter). Karley being incapacitated from this, Nikki Stepped up to the plate and took one for the team by doing a lovely rendition.

Volleyroos women perform traditional Vietnamese music.

Chau called Tracey to see what was taking so long as our training was due to start 15minutes earlier and she instructed us to run back or she’d be in trouble!  We were still all in stitches on returning and luckily have footage of the whole event.

After training we had lunch then scouting video of Vietnam for the game later that day. A little downtime in the arvo then it was game time.

Let’s just say it wasn’t our best performance, going down in 3, but we hope to rectify that against the Kazi’s today.

Xoxo Soph and Tash #407