Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2022年7月 亞博匯 78 Oscar Guijarro: Thanks for speaking with us Starr. Could you tell us, a bit about your background and where you grew up? Starr Xian: I was born in China, in Guangzhou. I grew up in Guangzhou and went through the Chinese education system. During the last year of high school we were about to decide where to go, which university to join. This was when China was already open and many of my classmates studied overseas. I also wanted to, but my parents, because I was an only child, didn’t want to send me far away from them. Then one day my father came home and showed me a picture of IFT (the Macao Institute of Tourism Studies). He told me that Macau was good because we would be nearby, somaybe I could think about studying in Macau. I said, “Okay, that’s a tourism school and I really like travel, I like geography.” At that time I was already thinking about something related to tourism, so I applied to the school and after the exam my father came home one day and said that I had been invited for an interview. Then he took me to Zhongshan for the interview. That was my first time speaking with a foreigner. I thought it was just a normal interview and then when I went I saw it was the principal of IFT. I had no idea if it went well, but after that my father told me that I had passed. That’s how I came to Macau. INDUSTRY PROFILE