Bull Fight

Nosebleeds


Matt and I woke up in the morning and moved to the youth hostel that I had reserved online. There are several rooms with a total of 8 beds in the room and shared showers and toilets. There is a common room with couches and a TV for meeting other people and relaxing.

I got my clothes laundered today, which is the first time in a long time. I had my clothes laundered in Morocco once in the first week and haven’t cleaned them since then.

We went to the famous Cathedral but it was only open for another half an hour, so we bypassed it and decided to come back later. Then we went to Reales Alcazares, a mix of a palace, a garden and a museum. It was amazing and so beautiful. I got in for free with my Student ID from Truman that has no year, I’m going to use that ID forever! I saved 7.5 EUR today and hopefully can save more soon.

Last night we went to a bull fight, I have never been to one and I didn’t know what to expect. First the bull fighters all come out to music in their ballet slippers, tights, spandex and sequins and they walk around making macho chest flaring movement. Then the bull fighters get their red capes, which were actually pink and make sure they like the way the capes perform. They seem to have something in them to give them a specific shape and appear to have weights on the bottom so they drape. The arena is a giant circle enclosed with wooden walls and there are several areas where a small wall is up so the bull fighters can hide behind it from the bull. A single bull would come out and men from behind the walls would drape their cloths to make the bull charge at them and then they would duck behind the wall. The bull fighters would do this to make the bull run all over the ring and get tired. Then a man on a horse with a spear would come out. They would get the bull to attack the protected horse and the man with the spear would stab the bull in the back several times. Then men with wooden sticks that have spikes on the end would come out and they would stab the spikes into the bull in the same spot it had already been stabbed. Then the bull fighter would come out with his cape and his sword. He would make the bull run all around him getting tired and dizzy. Then the bull fighter would stab his sword deep into the same spot on the back of the bull. Two more bull fighters would come out and make the bull dizzy until it fell down. Then a final bull fighter would come out and finish the bull off before it was dragged away by a team of horses. The bull fighter that got the recognition was the one with the sword and if he could get the sword all the way in on the first try and quickly bring the bull down the audience would stand and wave handkerchiefs and then the bull fighter would walk around getting flowers and gifts from fans. The identical process above was repeated on a total of six bulls without any differences or variation. The bulls would never go for the guy waving the cape, it would always go for the cape. One of the bulls knocked a bull fighter to the ground and then the bull went after the cape on the ground instead of the bull fighter. The bull fighter that got knocked down got a gash on his head and he was bleeding all over his face.

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