JAPAN SPEECH

SIDDHARTH IYER, a high school student from Gujarat, represented India as it's Cultural Ambassador at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, on December 16, 2009. He went to Japan under the JENESYS (Japan East-Asia Network of Exchange for Students & Youths Programme), organised by AFS (American Field Service). As the Cultural Ambassador of India and Gujarat too he spoke for the first time at public gathering at the Grand Closing Ceremony of the JENESYS Programme at Olympic Stadium. When he ended his speech when the National Director Mr. Takada & Chairman Mr. Ogawa for the AFS Japan rose to congratulate him for the speech.As the cultural ambassador of the nation, Siddharth had much to talk about the cultural ethos of Gujarat. Gujarat's peace-loving ethos, its spiritual and economic development were all that came as surprise to some of the people here. One Japanese even asked him if the people in India still travel on bullockcart, he says adding it is not correct to assume that Japanese far ahead in technology are equally good in GK, Siddharth said.