what is the deal, Abdoullim?

OK, so what is the deal with Tajikistani guys? Am I right? They're so flakey. Again, I met Abdualim in Mumbai and joked (kind of) that he was the most promising of all potential guys in my life. And yes, meeting somebody once and making out in a hotel hallway counts as having him in your life. Like, duh! Everyone knows that.

So I had a little correspondence with Ab since I met him last winter. And the other day, I got this:

Hello dear [my name]!

I am in United States now. We came from Washington to Telluride Film Festival (Colorado). In couple of days we will go to St. Francisco and then to Chicago and in September 11 to New York city. I will depart from New-York in 17 th. Hope to see you.

huggs,
Abdualim

OK, I thought it was a little weird he hadn't told me before he was came to the U.S. But then again, he is from Eastern Europe and may not have had any running water or email access. And I could imagine the trip happening totally last minute after the Ab's brother was finally able to sell his sheep and pay back Ab the money he had lent him so Ab could pay for flight and black market passport. You think I'm being Westernist, but wait til I show you another email which proves how sometimes, jokes about Tajikistan are more true than intended.

So I wrote to him

Hey Abdualim,
Where are you staying in NY? At a hotel? If you need a place to stay, you can stay with me. Call me at 123 456 789

To which he wrote

I don't know yet about the name of the hotel our delegation is going to stay. Thank you very much for you invitation. As I find out and come to New-York I will call to you

To which I wrote

let me know your plans and if there is
anything in particular you want to do or see in nyc. and I still don't know what you are doing in the united states. are you showing a movie?
which one?

Then he wrote this email, which really annoyed me:

Hi [mispells my name for first time]!

Thank you very much for your messages. I am here as a participant of the international visitor programm "Documentary filmmaking" financed by states department. We have a very hard schedule in every cities and in New-York too. They want to show as US film industry. hope to see you soon.

WTF? "hope to see you soon"? And why hasn't he called me? Here I am, a native New Yorker, offering to show him around and he "hopes to see me soon" because of his "hard schedule." I'm kinda annoyed. Not because I want to get some Tajikistani action (been there, done that. Contrary to popular belief, the old saying "once you go Tajikistani you never go backi," is not true. ) But shouldn't he be excited just to see me because I'm a cool person who lives here? Again, I'm actually not at all upset, more offended. Does he have a girlfriend? Maybe someone from states department? I'll show you some other e-mail exchanges so you can see that he's usually more friendly. He even invited me to his country and told me, with my hair up, I looked like the "women of the mountain." He seems to change his tone over the course of these emails too. Weird. Guess the Soviets were right.