So, on Feb. 9th (?? maybe...) I went to a city, about 45 minutes away from Salamanca called Ciudad Rodrigo to celebrate Carnival!! (For those who don't know, Carnival is kinda like Mardi Gras. It's the last huge celebration before lent.) I went with two friends from the States who are also living in Spain right now, and we had a great time!
Everyone dresses up for this event, and a lot of times, groups dress up together. We decided to dress up with the traditional masks, wore sparkly tights and scarves, and painted our nails!!
Walking around the outside of the city...
View of the bull ring... we couldn't tell if it was still in use or not, since the bull fight they had that day was in the city, and not there...
Some people walking around all dressed up.
Some of the more interesting things we saw were...
Cute costumes!!
After walking around, we went to see a bull fight!! I was really conflicted about if I wanted to see one or not. I'm not a fan of what happens, but at the same time, it's such a part of Spanish history and culture, that being a student of Spanish culture, I felt I should see. I will say, I had no idea what to expect, and I didn't think it would be as awful as it was. There were times I almost cried!! But, I saw one, and if in the future any of my students have questions about it, I can tell them about my experience.
Here are some pictures. I'm not going to put any of the sad ones up, and I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about what a bull fight entails. I will, however, put up a video soon explaining it all (just me talking about what I saw... haha) so if anyone wants to know, they can watch it, but if they don't, they don't have to. I'm also putting the video up more for myself so I can remember everything, since I highly doubt I'll be going to one ever again.
And it looks like there were a lot of people that had a good time as well...
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