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在電影公司工作的員工雖然沒影子想像中那種天天活在遊樂圓的生活模式, 活動卻不少.

比方說影子上方這個裝扮就是為了迎接動畫主管英勇回歸的慶祝會! ( 謎之音: 英勇回歸是啥? 那是因為影子現在公司在舊金山跟洛杉磯都有公司, 而這個動畫主管剛結束在洛杉磯的支援.) !  對~ 就是支援而已~幹麻還稿的慶祝會~大家都要打扮成這付德行呢?  哈哈~~~~~就是沒事找事作啦!  這個動畫部的主管每天都帶著西部牛仔帽, 留著這樣的小鬍子, 穿著尖到不能在尖的靴子!  為了迎接他~ 我們就全都打扮成他的模樣了!



我右邊這兩個工作夥伴沒有帶西部牛仔帽, 竟然異想天開的用購物牛皮紙帶變出這麼兩頂看起來很像牛仔帽, 但又更像迪士尼魔法師的帽子!  挺有趣的吧!!
忘記跟紀錄攝影的員工要團體照了!  那個才真是經典咧~~~~~
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最近自告奮勇的加入公司專門搞創意活動的團隊, 才知道原來公司內部活動多到讓人覺得好笑~   有機會辦活動時, 影子再把照片貼出來. 不過整體來說, 影子在團隊內就屬於比較文靜的類型, 不是我不夠活潑, 而是太多"純種美國文化" 俺實在沒聽過阿...............................比方說 "Cinco de Mayo"   大家聽過嗎? 嘿嘿~ 如果你不是美國人, 或是在美國長大的, 大概就不會知道這是啥節日啦. 就好像美國人不懂為何我們要有端午節一樣! 1862 年的這一天, 墨西哥軍隊在Puebla 這個地方擊潰法國軍隊, 使法軍無法攻入墨西哥市, Cinco de Mayo 就是紀念這一天。有興趣的人不訪看一下下面這篇簡單扼要的解釋. From http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm

The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be!  And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be.  Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810.  And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.

So, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez.  The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left.  The French, however, had different ideas.

Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay.  They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire.  His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War.

The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.

Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited.  Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns.  The Mexican Army was less stylish.

General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks.  In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them.  The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.

When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away.  The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen.  This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.

Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.  American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French.  The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City.

It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862.  But who knows?

In gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces.  As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America.

Mexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans.  That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty.  There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862.  VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!

 下星期將會在公司內部舉辦慶祝活動!  對~~~一個不關美國人的事的派對! ( 美國人就是愛開趴替)  到時候再貼照片上來囉!


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