Cheesy is back!

Allow me my moment of cheesiness, sometimes you need some good old cheesiness to restore the balance after a few months of cynicism.

2 and a half weeks of online dating and I'm just overwhelmed by the amount of dates I've been on... You guessed: ZERO. Not only I haven't been on dates, I haven't made it past stage 1 of 'guided communication', which is when I send seemingly interesting people 5 pre-fabricated questions, to which they regularly don't answer. 

I did get an email from someone who decided to skip the 'guided communication' and formulate his own sentences. I appreciate the effort, and I've rarely been so flattered (in fact, no had had ever called me very awesome before!), but I'm left questioning whether formulating his own sentences was really the best choice: 

Dear Erica Hi doing ?U looking very awesome and beautiful with your genuine smile,I want to get to know u more,am interested in you,if you can give me chance, to get to know me better ,i will be glad. Mike

...But then it apparently only takes a semi-sweet email (or two) and a bit of Africa/Latin America travel planning with someone who charmed me with Malawian sunsets and his way of being a white-man-in-Africa... and the cheesy mode kicks in. SWEET!