Katya (15) 10th-grade student at School #49.

The first time I saw Keanu Reeves in "Speed", I thought he was a great actor. I think he's a great person, too. Of course, he's very good looking, but there's something else that's special about him.

I have seen "Speed" 25 times, sometimes a couple of times in one day. After a while it got to be a joke at school -- my friends would say, "Hi, Katya, how's 'Speed'?" And I would say, "Great! Seventeen times as of yesterday." When I got to 25, everybody said "Katya, enough! You have to stop!"

I like men with dark hair and dark skin, especially if they have blue eyes. It's my dream to move to Spain -- such good-looking men there, and the culture and language are so beautiful and passionate.

Some people say they can never leave Russia, since it's the place they were born. But I am not a patriot like that. I don't want to say that Russia will never get out of the difficult situation it's in, but all the same, life here right now doesn't suit me.

Some people in this world live, and others merely exist. Here in Russia I only exist.

I want to live.