I just received this odd email:

Hai ,
I have the feeling that this piece of mail will reach you in a perfect state of mind and in a better healthy codition. While searching through the members.yahoo.com I came accross your contact address and decided to contact you. I believe and also have the feeling that in todays world, neither race,age,nationality nor religion will any longer posse a barrier to male/female relationships.

Although, we do not know each other well but I will really like to have you as a friend or pen pal if that is better for you.I am a single lady of 25years old, currently studing international relations at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), a citizen of the United States of America residing in Los Angeles with my parents, brothers and sisters. Presently, I am doing my final year in the University and so anxious to graduate from the University into the free world. While I hope to hear from you soon,

I also look forward to receiving some information concerning you, your family, country and even your personal life experiences. This will give us the opportunity of knowing each other better and be able to understand ourselves more. May God bless you as I wait to hear from you soon through this email address. xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Thanks.

Yours,
xxxxxxxxxx

What the hell is this? Is she serious or is some lead in to a scam that i haven't heard about? How can she look forward to hearing about my country when my profile clearly says I live in Alameda, CA? I thought for a second that maybe it still said Samoa, but I guess I changed that a while back and I need to update it again. But there's also a picture of me. I would send her a link to this blog, but not after writing this post. I don't know. It just seems odd. I don't get that many requests to be a pen pal. I thought that whole idea was dead. Then there's some unusual misspellings for a UCLA senior, some really poor punctuation and some seriously archaic turns of phrase. I don't know. Maybe this is just standards email English, but it feels wierd for some reason. Anybody?