From Santa Giusta to Istanbul passing through Ferrara and becoming a “citizen of the world”. The dream of Simone Figus, 24 years old , has become a lifestyle. And with a degree in Motor Sciences already earned and the master's degree now upon us, enriched by an intense ten-month research path at the Educational Research Department Isokinetic in Bologna, he looks to the future with determination: between studies, research and travels, he always carries his Island in his heart.
He left immediately after graduation " I chose Ferrara because it seemed like a city made to measure for me and in fact I found myself very well ". With a perfect timetable he graduated, then while he was attending the master's degree course here is the new adventure with Erasmus: he was the only student from the University of Ferrara to obtain the scholarship for Turkey.
"An extraordinary country," he says, "I got to know a new culture and people, I was able to further improve my English and get to know an entire nation and its language in detail." An unforgettable life experience even if, especially at the beginning, there were some difficulties. " In those moments, my strength was the bond with my land ," he recalls, "I went for long walks on the Istanbul seafront and often took the ferry to cross the Bosphorus Strait and the Golden Horn, a haven of well-being that echoed my past, immersed between the seas of Sardinia and the pond of my home, making me feel in total harmony with my roots."
That lagoon that every year hosts the Is Fassonis regatta «in which I always participate. Maybe because my grandfather was a fisherman and triumphed in countless regattas in that pond that I feel rooted in me and allows me to find balance and well-being wherever I am». Now Simone Figus continues his studies, his research (he is preparing for his first scientific publications), with the possibility of undertaking a doctorate in another European country or even in America. A citizen of the world but with his heart always at home «where I return as soon as I have the chance, perhaps to relive the emotion of a regatta in the waters of the pond» .
