Day 14 – Buddy and Roughead

We went into our match against India today in a confident mood after our break through win against Sri Lanka the previous day.

We started really well and put the Indians on the back foot with our agression. It was a great team effort. Everyone who hit the court contributed greatly but Taliqua and Karly were the standouts in the early part of the match. They were our Buddy and Roughead. If one doesn’t get you the other will. Well, Buddy is Buddy but we can assure you that Karly is MUCH better looking than Roughead.

The Indians took the third set 26-24 but we regrouped in the last set and with Taylor stepped up with some great kills we took out the match comfortably.

After brief team meeting and, we stayed at the stadium to watch the other matches. Armed with a laptop each Jenny and Chau, who are fanatical Hawthorn supporters, were trying to get radio broadcasts of the AFL grand final over the internet. Jenny was sitting in the VIP stand and she kept throwing her arms up every time the Hawks scored a goal to the bemusement of the gentleman sitting behind her.

We saw some wonderful volleyball in the semi finals. Riding with the fanatical home crowd support Chinese Taipei came back from 1-2 down to upset the more fancied Chinese. The stadium was rocking every time Taipei scored a point. Taipei will meet Japan who downed Korea in straight sets in the final on Sunday.

We got back to the hotel around 10pm and went straight to the dinning room for our dinner/supper. We surprised Kat Chen with a birthday cake. Everyone in the dinning room sang happy birthday to her.

Our volleyball commitments here are over. We are looking forward to watching some more exciting volleyball tomorrow and to do some sightseeing in our last few days here in Taipei.