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| 22:36 UK time, Tuesday, 2 March 2010
fourth of April, fifth of May, six of June, seven of July San Fermin. To Pamplona we will go, with tights, with tights. To Pamplona we will go, with a tight and a shock."
The above are the lyrics of the very of Sanfermines. These days of the months are a perfect excuse to have a dinner between friends in order to celebrate the coming festival. I have started this post in this way remembering today is third of March!.
I was very grateful with all people commenting in my first post. It was a very pleasant activity to read and answering all comments from worldwide people.
Answering to Nuala, my english teacher, I have to say that yes, I have run with the bulls but in -my birthplace- instead on Pamplona.
In summer at Navarra, and almost the full Spain, all villages have a full event calendar celebrating festivals in honour to his patron saint. The main roots of this festivals are almost always religious. In Tudela, the city where I was born, Santa Ana is his patron saint.
In the festivals of Spain there are two main traditional activities with bulls; running and bullfigther. The bullfighter spectacle always concluded with the death of the bull by a sword thrust. Only in some special ocassions where the bull has showed an exceptional performance and being brave, the bull can receive an "indulto" this means the bull is allowed to return the ranch where he came from. In contrast, the running of the bulls involve running in front of six bulls that have been let loose by the streets. These streets are secured with barricades made with wood and iron in order to transport them from the pen to the bullring.
If you want participate you have to enter in the itinerary one hour prior to the start, and the last years the council of Pamplona is putting special efforts in avoiding the entry to drunk people. I spoke with some runners, and they told me that after they were waiting for more than one hour prior to start the running with the bulls, they only had a few seconds of closeness to the bulls but enough to make a high quantity of adrenaline.
My take on this slice of tradition it's I think is something incredibly exciting but in Pamplona the real danger is running between the massive crowd.
In relation to bulls, actually in Spain there is a big discussion between the people who support this tradition and people who want to ban the bullfighting.Turning now to the sysadmin question, Kirsti answered the question in the comments.
Yes, sysadmin came from system administrator, It's a kind of job belonging to the Information Systems department. I will tell you some personal experiences in next posts.
By the way, my mutt Urko is very happy with all the compliments he had with his photograph where he was three months old. Now He is one year and seven months old but with the same size. Photos of how looks like now in next posts.
Thanks people for the interesting comments you left in my previous post, as you know I welcome any comment and I will try answer them.
Regards
Comment number 1.
At 3rd Mar 2010, Konstantyn R wrote:The given information was interesting and maybe exciting, especially foto with your participation! It's you on the first rank, am i right?
But after reading your post i wanted to hear from you a little bit more about bullfighting... Maybe some particular information? :) What can you say about this scene with bulls and men with swords? When you're sitting in front of the act how does it look like?
Thank's and sorry for so many questions beforehand!
Good luck and waiting for your next posts.
Konstantyn
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Comment number 2.
At 4th Mar 2010, Anita wrote:Hello Emilio!
Nice to meet you! Welcome to the blogs! How nice to have a student blogger from Spain again!
I was lucky enough to spend a two-week holiday in Barcelona in 2002 and I felt immediately in love with this city. I had the chance to see bullfighting there. However, it was a complete disaster because my daughter cried during the show as she felt sorry for the bulbs. I have heard that Barcelona has become an anti-bullfighting city since then. Yeah, I am happy with this decision.
My family likes animals, we are also dog people. We have a beagle, called Bobó. I know, it means silly in Spanish but he is a clever one, no doubts. :) Your Urko is very very cute.
I am looking forward to reading your postings. Take care,
Anita, Slovakia
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At 5th Mar 2010, danny wrote:Hola Emilio
I keep following your blog. You do wonderful job and it is so nice to meet here so many people involve and above all the way Naula conducts this matter.Let me ask you if Benjamin de Tudela who was great and very important traveler is famous in Tudela today? Is the city proud of him?
Asta luego
Danny
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Comment number 4.
At 6th Mar 2010, Emat wrote:Hi, Emilio!
So, it was truly very interesting for me to read your texts. Particularly about bullfighting, i didn't knew the details of the bullfighting rules - there is nothing for it but to hope all the bulls in the Spain are very brave and they are used to showing an exceptional performance.
Answering to your question. Is '1984' something made from script in G.Orwells novels? Unfortunately, i hadn't watch the film, but in defence of myself i can say i read in former times (15 or may be even 20 years ago) both of 'Animal farm' and '1984'. If you like film with such plots, there is very interesting (non-English but nonetheless) movie 'The Good Shepherd', on the basis of realistic story, without any hypothetical situations as in '1984'.
I'm sorry i realize there are lots of gramatically mistakes in my posts, because i'm only in the start of the level for the beginners, and i hope these sentenses will be at least enough understandable.
Anyway, thanks for you Emilio for your a few indirect advices of the tenses form structures.
Best regards,
Emat
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At 6th Mar 2010, Natalie wrote:Hello,Emilio!I've read about your participation in running of the bulls. You are both brave and lucky, because you're happy avoiding injury. Every year Moscow TV shows a small report about The Festival in Pamplona and every year a few bravers are on the list of injures. It looks like guys like to tempt fate. Spain streets are so narrow and during The Festival are also overcrowded. Sometimes I think if a participant is in a serious danger from a bull, he can't jump out of the fence of corridor.Horrible!
One question:why have not anything placed over bulls horns to minimize the risk of serious injury to the participants?
Sorry, it's simply my opinion.
Natalie
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At 6th Mar 2010, Adri wrote:Hi Emilio
Good luck in the blogging area this month. You will have a lot of fun. I'd like to know more about Social networks and his threats suggested by you in the last post. Please say hello to Urko. Thanks for sharing informations about your traditions.
Looking forward to the next post
Adri
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At 17th Mar 2010, Orion wrote:Hi Emilio. Very interesting this tradition of run ahead of the bulls. Here in Panama We have something similar which happen only in special parties in towns, but ussually the drank people go inside the barrers and almost always some of them are injured. I personally like to see from outside barrer but to go inside never. So my respect to you for your experience.
By the way We (my wife & me) has a dog very similar to urso.
Regards
Orion
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