. >> reporter: chris albrecht gets a lot of e-mails. >> hello. good morning. anna. >> reporter: the four sentences of english that arrived in his inbox last week, he is affixed to. >> it's a teacher's dream come true. >> reporter: meet curtis. he doesn't say much. he does write, though. >> i said i like to play football with my dad. and play video games. >> reporter: last year, the instruction of his fourth grade teacher, mr. albrecht, curtis stuffed a letter in a bottle like this one. >> i called her and said, can you find a person that takes bottles out in the gulf stream. >> good job. >> reporter: turns out, finding fishermen who will throw 40 bottles into the ocean isn't too hard. >> awesome. >> reporter: they will even shoot video of it. a year passed and that was it. or so they thought. whoever found the letter got a nicely written letter. >> and curtis' handwriting is impeccable. >> reporter: last week, the letter written by a fourth grader was reeled in by a fisherman in portugal. >> we asked if possible to inform the curtis that we received the messag