Hi:) Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my website.
My name is Samira. In Arabic, my name means "someone who talks lively in the
evening and someone who comes alive at night". (I'm sure my
future husband will be pleased with the latter!) I live in Queens, New York and I am currently studying in my Freshman
year of High School(trying hard to pass Bio and Geometry, lol).
I guess I should mention why I started liking Leo in the first place.
At first, I never thought I would like an actor enough to follow
their career for more than two years and to watch their movies over
and over again-I never thought I was that kind of person. In fact,
during my first Leo movie, Romeo and Juliet, which I watched on a Greyhound
to Boston, I fell asleep and didn't cry when Romeo died. And when
Titanic opened in Theatres, I was the last person in my class to see the movie.
Even then, I had no clue why my girlfriends were head over heels over
some guy on screen.
So, although at first I never paid any attention to Leo, Titanic stuck with
me long after I walked out of the cinema... and stuck with me through
my first week of swim team practice. Ok... so what the hell does
Leo have to do with my swimming... well, lots. So anyway, it was
my first swim season, and practice was not a "piece of cake" as my
coaches had led me to believe. I was terrified of diving,
petrified of the water and the pool was freezing cold. I almost
considered quitting and then that weekend I remember seeing Titanic
with my parents. I saw all those passengers feeze to death in the
icy waters, frost bitten and cold. And I saw Jack Dawson die.
So the following week at tryouts, it was my turn to swim a 100, and
sure enough, yeah, I was wimped out. And while the starting gun was about to
go off, suddenly I remembered Titanic, and all those freezing passengers
and most of all, Jack, all of whom were dead in the cold waters. And
I said to myself, Geez... what am I complaining of?!? Jack
died in a cold sea... I'm just in a pool! Corny? Well it sure helped
me overcome my fear of swim team... and helped me to win first place
in the 50 freestyle. And yeah, thanks to Leo, I guess:)
After that, I sort of always used to remember "Jack" throughout
my swim season and basically throughout my whole 7th Grade year.
And
after getting tired of "Jack", I was curious to learn more about Leo.
I found his acting fascinating and I liked his choice of roles.
It was fun watching his movies through my first year in HS because
he played many characters that I was reading about in Lit. class. I was
amazed at the depth of his acting and how much he brought those characters
to life on the big screen.
Of course I also found him attractive, handsome and sexy.
Still, even now, I really haven't a concrete answer as to why
I continue to like Leo. All I know is that it must have been something-
something big!
