RIZAL IN HONGKONG Rizal arrived in hongkong .

He was welcomed by filipino

residents,especially his old friend jose maria Basa.before christmas .he was gladdened by the
arrival of his father,brother and silvestre ubaldo(his brother in law)in hongkong.not long
afterwards his mother was then 65 years old and was almost blind.she had suffered so much
from spanish brutality and injustices.THe christmas in hongkong was one of the happiest
celebrations in riza's life .for he had a happy family reunion.He wrote to blumentritt,reccounting
their pleasant life in hongkong.To earn living for himself and for his family ,rizal practised
medicine.In due time ,became a successful and well known medical practitioner in british
colony .he had many patients including british,chinesse,and americans.he successfully on his
mother's left eye so that he was able to read and write again.aside from being an eye
specialist,he was a general practioner.some frriends of rizal who were in europe gave him moral
and substantial aid in his medical practised in hongkong .rizal possesed the qualities of a great
opthalmic surgeon.had he devoted his lifetime to practised of medicine he would have a become
one of asia's eminent opthalmologists. RIZAL IN AMERICA · April 28, 1888- the steamer Belgic,
with Rizal on board, docked at San Francisco on Saturday morning · May 4, 1888- Friday
afternoon, the day Rizal was permitted to go ashore · Palace Hotel- Rizal registered here which
was then considered a first-class hotel in the city · Rizal stayed in San Francisco for two days—
May 4 to 6, 1888 · May 6, 1888-Sunday, 4:30PM, Rizal left San Francisco for Oakland · May 13,
1888-Sunday morning, Rizal reached New York, thus ending his trip across the American
continent Rizal stayed three days in this city, which he called the “big town.” · May 16, 1888-
Rizal left New York for Liverpool on board the City of Rome. According to Rizal, this steamer was
“the second largest ship in the world, the largest being the Great Eastern” · Rizal had good and
bad impressions of the United States. The good impressions were (1) the material progress of the
country as shown in the great cities, huge farms, flourishing industries and busy factories (2) the
drive and energy of the American people (3) the natural beauty of the land (4) the high standard
of living (5) the opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants One bad impression Rizal
had of America was the lack of racial equality: “America is the land par excellence of freedom but
only for the whites” IN BELGIAN BRUSSELS -January 28, 1890- Rizal left Paris for Brussels,
capital of Belgium -Two reasons impelled Rizal to leave Paris, namely (1) the cost of living in
Paris was very high because of the Universal Exposition (2) the gay social life of the city
hampered his literary works, especially the writing of his second novel, El Filibusterismo LIFE IN
BRUSSELS · Rizal was accompanied by Jose Albert when he moved to Brussels. They lived in a
modest boarding house on 38 Rue Philippe Champagne, which was run by two Jacoby sisters
(Suzanne and Marie). Later Albert, left the city and was replaced by Jose Alejandro, an
engineering student · Rizal was the first to advocate the Filipinization of its orthography · Sobre la
Nueva Ortografia de la Lengua Tagala (The New Orthography of the Tagalog Language)- was
published in La Solidaridad on April 15, 1890 -in this article, he laid down the rules of the new
Tagalog orthography and with modesty and sincerity, he gave credit for the adoption of this new
orthography to Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera, author of the celebrated work El Sanscrito en la
Lengua Tagala (Sanskrit in the tagalog Language) which was published in Paris, 1884 ** “I put
this on record,” wrote Rizal, “so that when the history of this orthography is traced, which is
already being adopted by the enlightened Tagalists, that what is Caesar’s be given to Caesar.
This innovation is due solely to Dr. Pardo de Tavera’s studies on Tagalismo. I was one of its
zealous propagandists.”** · Letters from home which Rizal received in Brussels worried him. (1)
the Calamba agrarian trouble was getting worse (2) the Dominican Order filed a suit in court to
dispossess the Rizal family of their lands in Calamba · In his moment of despair, Rizal had bad
dreams during the nights in Brussels when he was restless because he was always thinking of
his unhappy family in Calamba · Rizal feared that he would not live long. He was not afraid to die,
but he wanted to finish his second novel before he went to his grave. · In the face of the
sufferings which afflicted his family, Rizal planned to go home. He could not stay in Brussels
writing a book while his parents, relatives, and friends in the distant Philippines were persecuted ·
July 29, 1890- another letter to Ponce written at Brussels by Rizal, he announced that he was
leaving Brussels at the beginning of the following month and would arrive in Madrid about the 3rd
or 4th (August) · “To my Muse’” (A Mi…)- 1890, Rizal wrote this pathetic poem, it was against a
background of mental anguish in Brussels, during those sad days when he was worried by family
disasters ROMANTIC INTERLUDE IN JAPAN rizals romantic interlude in Japan was his happiest
interludes. it covers 1 and half months from february 28-April 13, 1888. during that time he fell in
love with the Japanese girl name seiko sui. but he called the girl o-sei-san. rizal want to stay
more inj japan but he has to sacrifice his happiness for hiw work for redemption for the opressed
people.