torero

Each morning, six bulls charge toward thousands of brave runners along a half-mile stretch of street to the city’s bullring, where later in the day the animals are killed by professional bullfighters, or toreros.

When he announced that he intended to fight bulls, one shot back: “You? You want to be a torero? With a thin and miserable face like that?”

But teacher Miguel Rodríguez, a former torero, said his school has adapted like the rest of society to the pandemic era.

"Pretty well, sometimes. But I must not let anybody know. It would be very bad, a torero who speaks English."

Boys do most of the exercises in pairs – one of them plays the role of torero and the other the role of the bull.