Matilda's Star Sally Shipard writes from Beijing

Matilda’s star Sally Shipard writes exclusively for Football in the Capital from Beijing, as the team head to North Korea for Sunday’s crunch game.

Hi, we arrived safely in Beijing at about 9pm Monday night.

It was a long flight, about 12 hours. We are 2 hours behind Sydney time, so suffering from jet lag hasn’t really been a problem.

We trained yesterday morning to shake the spider webs, and had the afternoon off.

Today we are playing China (Wednesday) and we fly to North Korea on Saturday for the big game on Sunday.
We have our little 'internet cafe' a the top end of the corridor, as this is the only place where we can get wireless:-) The girls are all cranking up Pinks album, as they are all obsessed with her music after watching her concert last weekend. (See Matilda’s Pink earlier post)

It’s really hot here compared to Australia. For the Queenslanders it’s not a real shock to the system, but for us Canberrans it’s boiling. The temperatures reached about 33 yesterday and 36 when we arrived. Hydrating and resting up is very high on our agendas. And so is studying, for the girls who are at uni, we all have exams when we get back to the 'real world'.

Lets not think past this Sunday though. We are all prepared for it, and cannot wait for the game against North Korea! Lets go Aussies!!!

More later

Sal.