Nuoro, the city of Alessandra Todde, actively contributed to electing her fellow citizen to the position of president of the Sardinia Region, the first woman in the island's autonomist history.
And now that she has made it, they remember her at school, in the sporting and social life of the community where she took her first steps.
"Alessandra was very good, the type of student that every teacher would love to have: diligent, tidy, she had many curiosities, very present with school activities and with her classmates - Piero Cicalò, her English teacher, told ANSA in the five years she attended the Fermi scientific high school in the second half of the 1980s -. I am not surprised by the excellent path she followed and which led her to become governor. I remember her high potential and her tireless desire to work hard to achieve the objectives" Born in 1969, the new president was born in Nuoro, daughter of Giovanni Todde, beloved mathematics teacher in the high school where the Cinquestelle exponent studied, and of Francesca Gandolfi, dealer of gift items in the 'giardinetti' , in the heart of the Barbagia capital.
"Alessandra had been far-sighted in those years - recalls Prof. Cicalò - she had enrolled in English when French prevailed at school and it was starting to be understood that English would become an international language (she now speaks 5 languages, nrd) She was very attentive to pronunciation, had a good vocabulary and was always ready to respond to conversations that I sparked."
In those same years, Todde divided her days of study and leisure with her friend and high school classmate Giusy Putzu: "I remember the endless study meetings at my house and at her house, we worked a lot in the group in class. We went out with Lian , an Australian boy who came to our class with Intercultura and we left for an educational trip to Paris.
The following year we self-financed another educational trip to London by selling sandwiches and pastries. She was always ready to get busy because she wanted to know, she was curious about everything and she was also a good sport: she played basketball in the city's women's team".
At the University she enrolled in computer science in Pisa, a subject she had been familiar with since she was in middle school: her father had given her a Commodore 20, one of the first computers released in 1980. "Technologies attracted her a lot - confirms Giusy - and in fact she worked precisely in that branch as an entrepreneur and manager and earned an important award".
But Sardinia is her greatest love: "Alessandra is very happy to return to the island, she always tells me - says her friend - If there is one thing she loves in the world it is her land, of which now wants to deal with:
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