Jose Rizal First Travel Abroad

Chapter 4- Rizals First Travel Abroad Rizals Departure * may 3, 1882 Rizal left the Philippines boarded the Spanish travel SS genus Salvadora bound for Singapore. * Rizals Departure for Spain was kept secret to avert detection by the spanish political science and the friars. Even his own parents did not do because he knew they would not allow him to go, especially his take. * The captain of the send off was Donato Lecha from Austria. * May 9, 1882 Salvadora Docked in Singapore. * May 11,1882 Rizal transferred to another ship Djemnah, A French Vessel for Europe. May 17, 1882 Djemnah Reach Point Galle A sea-coast town in Southern Ceylon (Now Sri Lanka). * The pursual sidereal day the Djemnah weighed anchor and resumed the sweep towards Colombo, The heavy(p) of Ceylon. * From Colombo the Djemnah continued the voyage crossbreeding Indian Ocean to the Cape of Guardufui, Africa. Which Rizal called waste land but famous. * The near stopover was in Aden. He was divert to see the camels for the starting signal judgment of conviction. * From Aden, the Djemnah continued to voyage to the urban center of Suez.He axiom the Suez Canal for the first time and he was thrilled to saw it, in which was built by Ferdinand De Lesseps ( A French Diplomat Engineer). * June 11,1882 The ship docked at Naples an Italian City, He was fascinated by Mt. Vesivius, The Castle of St. Telmo. * On the night of June 12,1882 the steamer docked at Marseilles. He visited the Famous Chateau Dif where Dantes is a hero of the Count of four-card monte Cristo from Alexander Dumas novel. * Travelling from train he crossed the Pyreness, stopped for a day at frontier town of embrasure Bou. After the passport inspection at Port Bou, Rizal arrived at Barcelona. Arrival in Barcelona * June 16,1882 Rizal arrived in Barcelona. * His first impression of Barcelona was untoward but it changed and he began to like the city because of its atmospheric of freedom and liberalism. * He wrote an act e ntitled Amor Patrio (Love of the country), Rizal sent this article to Basilio Teodoro Moran (Publisher of Diariong Tagalog). Rizals studied in Madrid * Rizal followed the advice of his erstwhile(a) brother Paciano to finish his medical itinerary in Madrid in the unhorse of 1882. He enrolled a course medicate and Philosophy & Letters at the Universidad substitution de Madrid at the same time he studied paintings and sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. * Rizal economized his free-and-easy expenses until he was able to buy irregular hand books and built a carnival size library of his own. * During his first pass vacation, Rizal decided to visit Paris on June 17. 1883 to August 20,1883. Rizal Joins Masonry * March 1883 Rizal joined masonic Lodge called ACACIA in Madrid and became a Master Mason on November 15, 1890. Luna and Hidalgos Triumph * After 2 eld in Spain things went wrong in Philippines. Rizal experience financial problems due to calamities happen ed. * Rizal monthly salary were delayed, there were a times that he missed meals during the day. * A touching contingency in Rizals life in Madrid occurred on June 24, 1884, Because he was broke, he was unable to take breakfast that day. With an avoid stomach, he attended class at the university and participated in the contest in Greek Language and he won the atomic number 79 medal. * In the evening of the same day, he was able to eat dinner because he was a guest speaker in a banquet held in admire of Juan Luna and Felix Resurrecion at Restaurant Ingles, Madrid.Completion of Rizal studies. * Rizal completed his medical checkup Course in Spain on June 21,1884 * Nov. 20-22, 1884 Rizal concern in student demonstration caused by the address of Dr. Miguel Morayta proclaiming The Freedom of Science and The teacher. Rizal in Germany and His Practice of Ophthalmology * Rizal chose to specialize in Ophthalmology because he wanted to cure his mothers eye ailment. * Nov. 1885, Rizal living in Paris for 4 months and he worked as an assistant to Dr. Louis de Weckert until Feb. 1886. * Because of his homesickness he wrote a charming poem A las flores de Heidelberg (To the flowers of Heidelberg).