My name is Giorgia Alice and I was born in Turin on July 29, 2003. I have lived in Venaria Reale for as long as I can remember and am the eldest of a large family. In order of age, my siblings are Andrea, Giulia, Leonardo, and Riccardo. We have Abruzzese roots, which we feel very strongly about even though we were all born and raised in Piedmont. Every year, we spend the summer in Pineto, a town about 20 km from Pescara, where part of our family lives.
I am currently attending the first year of Integrated Communication for Businesses and Organizations at the University of Udine (at the Gorizia campus).
On July 16 this year, which is also my aunt’s birthday, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Turin.
I have a classical education and, in particular, I graduated on July 4, 2022, from the Liceo Classico e Musicale Cavour in Turin. These were formative years that shaped me as a student but also, and above all, as a person. Thanks to some teachers I had the privilege of meeting along the way, I discovered my vocation and decided to focus my studies on the immense world of communication.
My passions
I have various passions and I try to cultivate them:
Culture and art
I love going to the movies. Despite all the streaming platforms, to which I subscribe, nothing compares to the emotions I feel in the theater. I also really enjoy theater, especially tragedies, and in recent years I have had the privilege of attending various operas at the Teatro Regio in Turin, which offers season tickets for young people at bargain prices.
I am also passionate about ballet, mainly because my brother Andrea is a classical and contemporary dancer. Together with Andrea, I founded a book club that many of our friends have joined. It all stems from our shared passion for reading, but also from the awareness that, as university students, it is easy to put it aside. The goal is to encourage each other to continue cultivating this passion. Every year I go to the Salone del Libro of Turin and, during the last edition, I had the honor of attending the presentation of Valerie Perrin’s novel Tatà.
Travel
Traveling makes me feel alive. The first trip outside Italy that I can remember was to Barcelona with my family when I was very young. Being a large family, it wasn’t easy to organize other trips outside Italy, but now I’m investing a lot in this.
Two years ago, I went to Paris, taking advantage of its proximity to Turin and the fact that there are many initiatives to bring young people closer to culture. One of these is the opportunity to visit museums for free. Last year, my aunt gave me a trip to Vienna, which, honestly, is my favorite city. In fact, although I had higher expectations for Paris, Vienna left such a vivid impression on me that it almost feels like a place I have lived in. I appreciated its grandeur, majesty, and silence. I was really struck by how quiet such a big city could be. This summer, I was given a trip to Portugal to celebrate my graduation. I decided to take a 7-day road trip, visiting various cities: Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Nazaré, Óbidos, and Lisbon. These experiences have enriched me, and I want to continue cultivating them over time, especially when I become financially independent.
Finally, thanks to the university, I am having the opportunity to “travel virtually.” I joined an online exchange program called VEEDUD, through which I talk to young people in Edinburgh who want to learn Italian. It’s not a trip in the traditional sense, but it still allows me to connect with and explore a different culture, while also sharing my own.
Cooking
Cooking makes me feel at home. I inherited this passion from my grandmother Franca, with whom I spend entire afternoons kneading dough and baking our creations. Last Christmas, we even gave each other matching aprons to make everything more professional. Neither of us are very precise about quantities. Rather than grams and liters, we rely on pinches, handfuls, and sprinkles. After all, it’s right to pass on recipes with a degree of imprecision so that everyone can then personalize them. Cooking for me is passion, not rationality. During stressful periods, I usually bake cake after cake… in short, friends and family eagerly await my exam sessions.
My reminder
Sapere aude.
– Have the courage to learn.
This citation represents the core of my approach to university and, in general, to life. I cannot claim that it represents me (or that it ever will), and I believe that the beauty lies precisely in the infinity of a quest that will never be exhausted.
For me, the courage to know lies in the daily awareness of one’s own ignorance. Ignorance understood in the etymological sense of the term, and therefore as a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is not a limitation, but the only tool that allows us to see the potential horizon unfolding before us.