The stadium had the same atmosphere as a baseball game in the US, lively and loud. The seats were in the WAY back of the highest section, but we could still see everything. Hey, you get what you pay for when you only pay 4.50 euro.
First, the bull was brought out and taunted by 3 men holding hot pink capes to get it really angry. After, two horses covered in armor were brought out and 2 men were riding the horses holding huge spears. First one and then the other rider speared the bull to weaken it. After, a man with two long feather-looking things that actually had knives on the end of them came out and threw the spears so that they stuck into the bull's back. This happened 3 separate times. The man about to throw the knives had a sort of dance that he did- a set of choreographed movements with his body and feet that led to putting the knives in the back of the bull. The torero (main bullfighter) came out with a red cape that he used to get the bull angry. Under the cape he held a long sword. The face-off between the man and the bull was very intense, the bull barely missing the torero by centimeters as it charged at the red cape. Finally, when the time was right, the torero jabbed the sword in the back of the bull. Then, the three men holding the hot pink capes came out and all of the men in the ring circled around the bull, making it confused as it weakened and fell to the ground. After the bull collapsed, the torero took the sword in the back of the bull and continued to jab it into the bull, making sure that it was dead. Although the bull did struggle a little, it was too weak and then eventually did not move again. Then 3 horses came out and the bull was attached to the back of them and dragged in a circle and then out of the stadium.
I didn't cry. Im not sure why- I thought I was going to. My teacher had prepared me for what I was going to see and almost all of the Spanish people I had talked to told me that I was going to cry at the fight because I didn't understand it. I didn't cry because I think I was just so in shock that crying was not my first reaction. My first reaction was my body going numb and thinking I was going to throw up. I think the part that made me most upset was after the bull was down, the torero continued to jab the sword into it. The bull didn't even have a chance.
Of course my camera died the second I got there so I don't have any pictures but my friend did manage to take some shots- I'll be uploading some of hers later. For now I think I need to just reflect on what I saw and just think of it as something I did and will never do again.
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