14:29 – Friday, January 13th 2012
To: your lucky (at) world academy w . edu
From: anonymous (at) world academy w . edu
Message:
Greetings.
It seems that I have been assigned your email as part of this "anonymous exchange program" that the Academy has decided to instate.
To be honest, I don't know how they hope to accomplish anything when it's all anonymous and confidential. If there's no way for them check up on our accounts to make sure that each student is actually participating, then I doubt that anyone will bother getting to know their email partner to try to 'broaden their horizons' from these little cliques. I don't really see anyone getting much out of this program, unfortunately.
That being said, if there is anything on your mind that you do wish to talk about, then I am here if you need an unbiased ear (or eye, as it were). I might not be able to offer any worthwhile advice, but I promise to keep anything you have to say between the two of us, and to do my utmost to offer some moral support through any difficulties you may be having in or outside of school. I am not one to spread rumours or betray people's trust, so please rest assured that anything you have to say will be kept in complete confidence.
Of course, I'm not doing any of this for you. I just don't want to be one of those disrespectful students letting down the school's reputation. It's an honour to belong to the Academy and I mean to live up to it. Besides, the staff worked so hard to implement this project, so it's only fair if I do my part.
If there's nothing you want to talk about, then that's fine by me. Just drop me a message saying you don't want to talk, so I know I don't have to bother checking this email account again.
I doubt this project will help us change our so-called "immature" attitudes towards our fellow students, anyway, seeing as these emails are anonymous. How can we change our opinions of each other when we don't know to whom we are speaking?
In fact, the whole thing seems a bit of a farce really, doesn't it? I mean, we're teenagers – of course there's going to be cliques. World Academy may be a prestigious international institution, but it's still a school.
So, write back or not. It's entirely up to you.
Yours most sincerely,
Anonymous
P.S. I'm not sure if your email address is supposed to be a reference to anything, but I think what you might have meant to say was "you're lucky" not "your lucky." The latter implies that you are a 'lucky' and that you're mine. As in, you belong to me. Which I'm sure is not what you meant. Try not to confuse "you're" and "your" because it can cause problems. And having to correct someone's spelling and grammar during a conversation is not my favourite pastime.