Do You Have Selena Gomez’s Email?

Every now and then, an unfamiliar email address will appear in my inbox and the over usage of emoticons or exclamation points will immediately tell me who it’s from. Three months after leaving my last school assembly, I’m still receiving emails from young students seeking advice, wanting to know what I’m up to, thanking me for my friendship, or trying to snag a celebrity’s phone number. Strangely enough, I’ve been asked a handful of times for the contact information for various celebrities like Selena Gomez, Adam Lambert (can I get tickets to the Idol show?) Oprah and President Obama. I suppose it makes sense that “famous” people must know all the other “famous” people and I have to give those kids props for using the contacts they have (ie. Me) to meet more famous people. Two particularly funny emails came in last month and I wanted to share them with you. (Names have, of course, been changed)

Dear Miss IL,
I was wondering if you knew Selena Gomez email.She is on Wizards of Waverley Place.It is on channel 50.Please tell me if you know thank you.

Love,
Marissa

I write an apologetic response and wish her luck in the new school year. She gives me the following advice:

Its ok.Are you going to come back again to [school name] this Year.

Love,
Marissa


P.S. If you here of anybody that might now Selena Gomez let me know. If you are starting a show you would be damous [famous] and what channle would it be on.If you are famous you could meet her.

Apparently I was her only hope for meeting Selena. I will definitely write her if I get my own TV show.

The next chain of emails had me laughing for days. I’d been writing back and forth with a middle school girl who frequently asked me for school or boy advice. She wanted to “introduce” me to her cousin via email and below is what ensued:

hi! it's me nikisha again! so i wanted you to meet my cousin britney!! her email address is [ ]!! so we've been best friends forever!!

I write to the two of them. Talking about my best friends and wish them luck with the new school year. Britney responds:

hi this is britney. Nikisha’s cuzin. well nikisha just wanted me to meet u. then i searched u and well u suk!!!! wat kind of woman are you!!! i mean ur ugly! dont bother telling this to nikisha. she thinks ur awesome!! but i hate u. so we have some differences. bye loser. reply asap

Wow! A lot of hatred for someone who’s never met me! I love the “reply asap”. I do respond ASAP and talk about how words can be just as hurtful online as they are in person. I ask for an apology and hope that she’ll never treat anyone like this again. Her reply:

i will never apologize to you!!! i dont care if my email hurt u. dats wat u get! nikisha would probably make me apologize but gess wat!!! shes not here. so HA!
ps. i will treat everyone likes this especially u!

Dats wat I get? My goodness I’ve got a little fireball on my hands! By now, Nikisha has been talking to Britney about the exchange and replies:

what do u mean? did my cuzin say something to u? what did she say!!!!! im so sorry if she offended you!!! im so so so sorry. shes only9 so she doesnt know. thank you!!!

I’m not sure what sparks the change of heart, but suddenly Britney changes her tune and writes me six emails in less than an hour’s time. At 8:09PM:

im sorry i swear 2 god i did not rite this! im so sorry whoever rote this! i would never treat any
one like this! im so sorry!! even though i didnt do this!!! anyways i apolagize!! im so sorry!! please forgive me!! it was probably my cousins that always make jokes! so sorry!

So the cousins did it huh? At 8:15PM:

please forgive me!! i swear i didnt write that! i would never say that 2 someone!!!!!!!!! it was probably my evil cousins that tried 2 mess up my email!!! u see, when i was writing it i went 2 the bathroom! then they went into the computer room and finished my email! i promise i did not say this!! im so honest!! i apoligize!! please trust me!! i didnt write any of this stuff! i think u r a great person and one of my rolemodels! thats y i wanted 2 meet u and give me my email! so please i apologize 1 billion times! i promise that who ever sent this never will again! im so sorry!!!!!!!!!!!

Those evil cousins, always playing tricks on us when we leave the room. At 8:25PM:

ok i know ive sent this 2 u thousands of times but im so sorry!! never in my whole life have i treated someone like this! i promise that i didnt write bad stuff about u!! u r a great person!!! please forgive me!!! im so sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i would never treat u or nikisha or anyone else this way!!!!!!!!!!! oh please forgive me!!!!!!! so if u get a chance 2 read this the true message is IM SO SORRY!!!!!! oh please forgive me! reply back soon!

P.S IM SO SORRY I DIDNT WRITE THIS!!!!

At 8:27PM:

oh and also i was in jamaica that day[month, day] !! i left the day b4! and the computers wouldnt work in the hotel(long distance)so i promise i did not write this bad stuff about u! i bet r a great person and i never send emails like this to anyone!

Now wait a minute. I believed the sneaky cousins story but now she wasn’t even in the country? Hmm…at 8:28PM

So Sorry!!! i did not send this!

And one last one at 8:44PM:

miss illinois im so sorry!!! i never i mean never would sens somethin like this i promise!!

Well, wherever the truth lies, Britney seemed truly apologetic. I thanked her for her emails and have since heard from both of them on much more mundane topics (should I wear a plain red t-shirt or a blue Hannah Montana shirt on the first day of school?) Kids can be so funny and I can only imagine the kinds of emails they must send to one another.

My goal is to blog more regularly and I’ll try to keep you posted on the latest and greatest in Katie Land. Until next time!
KT :)