My Russian Bride #2

Hello my dear friend Daisung!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so glad to
receive your answer my dear Daisung! It is the
happiest time in my day to
read your letter. It makes me smile. Because you know
it is very
important for me and I hope that it is also important
for you. I am
really interested in you and in our correspondence. I
want to know
about you and about your country. It is like a dream
for me that we
got acquainted with each other. I read your letters
with great
pleasure! So my dear Daisung I think that you would
like to learn more
about my interests and hobbies. About music. I like to
listen to
different music. Oh I forgot that I have already
written you about the
music which I listen. I will not write you about my
favorite Russian
singers and groups, because I think that you don’t
know them. It would
be interesting for me to learn about it. Please, tell
me, ok? Movies…
I like to watch comedies, fantastic and romantic
films. But the
greatest impression has left on me films ' The Lord of
Rings', ' Harry
Potter '. I believe you watched these films? But
special impression
had the film ' The Patriot ' with the main actor Mel
Gibson, where the
war between England and America is described. This
film shows the
natural spirit of the patriotism, the love to Native
Land! I consider
that it's very important qualities, which all people
in the world
should have! Really? Mel Gibson has played his role as
a talented
actor in my opinion! Also I liked the film 'Cruel
Intentions', in my
opinion; it's very sensual and instructive film for
all youth. Also
among comedies I liked the film ' Me, Myself and Irene
' by the comic
actor Jim Carrey :) I hope that you watched this funny
film :) Among
fantasy, I liked film ' Planet of the Apes’; it's a
very entertainment
film in my opinion. About food? Ok, as for my favorite
dishes, I like
fried fish, also I like meat, I don't want to hide it
from you. I like
chicken very much, do you like chicken? It tastes so
good, really?
Also I like pizza very much. It's very tasty too; I
like pizza with a
cheese. I like fruit and vegetables, especially,
apple, orange,
banana, tomatoes, cucumbers and so on, there are many
kinds of
vitamins. Daisung, do you like to cook? I cook not bad
as friends say to
me. To tell the truth I am fond of cooking. I can
spend hours in the
kitchen cooking something delicious. Many times my
best friend Klava
and me gathered in the kitchen and cooked together.
Now her husband
Larry is fond of her dishes. O hope that one day you
will taste my
dishes my dear Daisung. You will taste different
Russian dishes. Believe
me you will love it. And I also want to taste the food
in your
country. Also about my favorite kind of sports, I like
sport very
much. Do you like it either? In winter I like to ski,
it's cool to be
on the fresh air. Also I like to play volley ball. But
most of all I
like aerobic. Also I would like to say that I like
ball dances. It is
fantastic. Have you ever danced the ball dance? It's
so attractive and
beautiful, really, Daisung? I'm sure, that you would
be very glad to
dance the ball dance with me one day? It will be
wonderful! Probably,
in the future, we will dance the ball dancing with
you, it would be
cool! Really? I would like to talk to you my dear
Daisung! I believe that
it is great idea. I would like talk to you on the
phone. Unfortunately
I don’t have the phone at home. But I will try to call
you from the
telegraph which is in the post office. If you want to
hear me Daisung
give me your telephone number and tell me in which
time should I call
you, but please tell me your time and Moscow time. I
am afraid that I
can mix something. I hope that you want to hear my
voice too. Please,
send me your phone number in your next e-mail, ok???
Please, don't
forget, Daisung! Daisung, I can't believe again I have
written you such a
large e-mail. I hope, that it will be interesting for
you to read
about me more. Really? Daisung, I would be grateful to
you, if you write
me in your next e-mail about your interests, about
your hobbies, what
kind of music do you prefer? What kind of movies too?
What is your
favorite color too??? My favorite color is blue, it
calms so much.
Well, let me finish my message, also I send you my
photo. Hope you
will like it. I will wait for your next e-mails!
Daisung, please, write
me as soon as possible! Ok? Good-bye, see you soon.
Anastasiya
ps
ledi holas its nothing mean

and my reply...

Daisung Jang		hide details	Oct 1
	to			ledi hol
	date			Oct 1, 2006 8:31 AM
	subject			Re: hi
	mailed-by			gmail.com

daisung.
p.s. could you tell me what your typical day is like in your next email?

Analysis

The movies she talks about are a little outdated aren't they? That's not shocking, but you could reasonably assume that if she liked movies she would have seen one in oh... the last year or so. Also, I don't recall asking her about food. Hmm...

Ok. So the fishy thing here is that she is asking for my telephone number. sounds like she could be trying to steal my identity to make some credit cards or something and I decided it wasn't worth the risk. Plus, I could test if she really was reading my emails because I would think that she would notice an ommision like that.

And she doesn't have a phone? But she has internet access? I could reason that she has access to an internet cafe but ok, that's a little fishy. An English teacher in Russia isn't by any means slumming it (by their standards).

And finally at the end of the message is where my BS meter starts ringing off the hook.

'ledi holas its nothing mean'

Well first of all, it looks like she's following a script and then just tagged a response to the end of it - the grammar here is very different to the rest of the message. Doesn't that look just wrong?

Part 3 coming soon.