MEMORIES of a visit: My several visits to Hamburg where a friend couple lived, brought me once to Heidelberg to spend a whole day there. But we came from Frankfurt, having gone there the day before. Considering the several other interesting places to visit, including the oldest and world-known library of Heidelberg University, that whole summer day in July, was a fleeting visit. There was Heidelberg University and its well-known institutes and Heidelberg Schloss (castle). Heidelberg has been made famous to us Filipinos by our national hero, Jose Rizal. As we commemorate our hero’s martyrdom, I would rather dwell not on his dying for our country which we and students very well know, but on how well he lived and loved living in Heidelberg, punctuated by homesickness. There are less known trivia on Rizal—such as his being a curious, naughty and smart boy doodling caricatures on a children’s Spanish book, watching the moth around the lamp instead of attending to his reading lessons, dropping the second half of his pair of slippers in the lake where the other dropped so the finder could complete the pair, longing as well for friends, loving beauty in young ladies as reflected in his poetry. https://www.filipiknow.s//. Knowing Rizal in a more personal way, our young could model his full use of time and talent.