[This message has been edited by Starman]
Hi all,
I recently posted some background information about myself and my experiences in SA (see my post "Adventures in SA"). This is a continuation of that post and the beginning of a series of posts about Venezuela. I hope this information can be helpful to someone.
I submitted my profile and a photo to an online introduction "agency". It was free so I said what the hell.
Soon after I had tons of responses, most from Cali. I'd say about half were very attractive ladies and most seemed to be sincere. Once they started rolling in, I had to pay to send them e-mails...that was the catch. I was hooked.
I communicated with maybe a dozen or so that I was interested in but none really seemed to tickle my fancy and it sometimes took too long to get responses. I kind of lost interest until I received an e-mail one day from a Hotmail account. This was against the rules because the agency required that we use their e-mail system--but since I had paid I did not have a problem with this.
She said that she had picked me out of a couple of hundred profiles and that I was very handsome and she would like a chance to get to know a man such as me. She had been receiving quite a few letters from the agency and a catalog from TLC but no one had caught her attention. It was interesting to me that she said that I was the only man that she had responded to... Her letter was very well written and organized and this told me tell that she was well educated. She gave me her telephone number as well.
She is from El Tigre, a small town in east central Venezuela in the state of Anzoategui. Their main industry is oil. Many Americans live there that are work in the oil business, but they live in a complex their company has setup for them. They rarely venture out from their comfort zone. Her father works for Petroliums (sp?) of Venezuela and makes more than the average man in the country. The area (and most of northeast Venezuela) is somewhat arid and hot (avg temp around 87 - 90 degrees). More on her town later.
Her photos were very nice and sexy...I commented on this and she said that Venezuelan women are very uninhibited. She is about 5' 2" tall and weights about 125 pounds, with black hair and light tanned skin (Moreno Claro). She has a 21-year old sister, a 9-year old son, and they all live with their parents in Pueblo Nuevo. She is 29-years old and has been divorced since she was 22.
Being the cautious person that I am, I thought that letter writing and maybe messenger would be a great tool to get to know her because I could check her for consistency. It would be easy to catch her in a lie if her story changed, etc. As intelligent as she is, the same goes for her.
We started writing each other everyday and then started using messenger. I was becoming more and more impressed by this women and she said that she would not respond to any other e-mails because she thought that I was the one...
I decided to test this by sending an e-mail from a bogus e-mail account...if she passed this test I told my self that I would just have to start trusting her. She had not given me any reason to distrust her to this point. She responded to the bogus mail by saying that she had already found the man of her dreams...this was after writing each other for about three weeks. I was satisfied but felt a little guilty.
My Spanish was very poor but I gave her a call anyway. She at the time, was having trouble with English as well but it served to strengthen our bond because it was nice to hear each others voice.
As I came to know her I realized that she was a wonderful women. Very intelligent, hard working, honest, sexy, and very compatible.
Anyway, after about two months of communication we came to know each other very well and I had begun to fall in love with this "virtual "women, I decided to visit her. She was very excited and nervous as I was. This is where you find out if either person has been misrepresenting something because once you get to know each other in person you can determine if they are the same as the person that you had become to know via e-mail, telephone, etc. That's why honesty is so important in relationships.
Next, Part 2 -- My First Trip to Venezuela
