Stranded at Sea for 3 Months in a Ghost Ship
from Old Asian Lady Hosted by Sharon Landon
What happens when life takes you somewhere you never expected to go? In this episode of #OldAsianLady, host Sharon Landon sits down with Victor Stevenson, a former cruise director and polyglot consultant whose remarkable journey has taken him from Chile to France, Taiwan, and around the world aboard cruise ships. Born in Chile and speaking four languages, Victor traces an extraordinary 25-year journey from dancing on cruise ships to organizing Taiwan's very first International Queer Film Festival in Taipei. They touch on the psychological phenomenon of how switching languages rewires your brain, surviving the surreal 2020 lockdown stranded on a ghost liner in a maritime "cemetery," navigating the cultural gap between legal same-sex marriage and traditional Asian filial contracts, and why real success means having the courage to take a risk.
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