北京绿色奥运

Honorable referees, distinguished contestants, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I feel it a great honor to have this opportunity sharing my opinion of the Green Olympics with you.
In August ,2004, as the delegate of Chinese teenagers, I participated in the Olympic Youth Camp. From it, I learnt and got a lot.
In Athens, I was not only intoxicated on its long history and the deep humanity, but also impressed by the citizens' environmental awareness and shocked by the passion of the locals' for environmental protection.
With fewer metropolitan dins can be found in Athens, the streets are neat indeed, for you will see no wastes on the road there. Moreover, I seldom saw cleaners in Athens, which impressed me very strongly. Because what this phenomenon reflected is a kind of quality, character and also a sense of responsibility about the environment. Which means, keeping the city clean is not only a governmental behavior, but a habit in the daily life of every Athenian's.
I still remember the picture that, an old lady took great trouble to bent over for picking up a piece of newspaper and sent it into a dustbin. When I asked why she did such hard work with her age.: "Why not? " she said, just so simple. Up to now, this picture still clearly exists in my mind for its embodied environmental consciousness and a national spirit.
Throughout the days in Athens, there were a series of educational activities about...