At the age of 90, which he will turn in less than a month, he speaks casually of megabytes, transistors, microprocessors and so on. Technology has no secrets for him , he knows perfectly how modern equipment works, uses messaging apps, and has even designed and built two types of electronic alarms for cars and apartments.
Giuseppe (Peppino) Mureddu , born in 1932, from Lodine , has lived for years in Monza and has decided to tell his experience in the book “L'emigrato sardo. Towards the Italian and European continent ”(Leone editore). But before arriving in Brianza he spent a lot of time abroad, emigrated above all to have a life perspective made up of a well-paid job , “not like in Italy, where they earned half my salary”. This was the drive that led him to leave Sardinia.
When he was a child he would walk five kilometers to school in Gavoi, then he started as a shepherd, and his father - a pig trader - often took him with him. “After our round of sales in the various countries he entrusted me with the money - Mureddu tells L'Unione Sarda - and in order not to risk losing it he made me hide it in my underwear. Then I went back to town by bus: I was a kid, I didn't wear elegant clothes, nobody would have thought that I was carrying a small treasure with me. Father, on the other hand, was returning on foot ”.
Other times, in short, but the bus will be one of his "dots": "When my father asked me 'what do you want to do when I grow up?', I answered 'the driver' and at 21 he sent me to the Nuoro driving school . And do you know where I slept so as not to go back and forth to Lodine's? The owner of the driving school offered me hospitality, he just announced: 'Just don't formalize yourself too much'. 'Absolutely not', I replied, in fact I was very grateful for that opportunity. My bedroom was in his shop, he was selling coffins ”. Apart from the initial amazement, Peppino succeeded in his intent and obtained a driving license, which came in handy when he left for military service. After the 15 months of compulsory military service, the return to Lodine and another course to have the title to drive buses, this time in Cagliari. When he applied for a job as a driver, he hung up on the classic “we'll let you know”.
