35 days ago

A little bit about me...

Andrej from Wadestown

Ngā mihi o te ahiahi, my name is Andrej,

Despite the slavic name my cultural background is best described as "German", I grew up and lived in DE for most of my life.

I've been in NZ / Wellington since 2001, living in Wadestown since 2015 and loving it for its mostly quiet environment, its proximity to work and it being surrounded by bush (Ahumairangi, Ōtari, Trelissick Park/Kaiwharawhara Stream). I work in IT. My hobbies/loves are the great outdoors and cooking (combining that w/ manaakitanga, I regularly cook meals to share w/ colleagues at work, probably owing to my Myers-Briggs personality type, ISFJ, some think of me as the office mum ;D).

Politically I stand in the eco & social-democratic corners (probably also owing to my personality type, kaitiakitanga is just as important to me as manaakitanga), not that any single NZ political party has my full support ...

The dish in the photo is one of my signature dishes I take to work several times a year, Beef Rendang, Coconut Rice and Açar (the roti is store-bought, though). =}
The outdoors shot is Wellington seen from Mt McKerrow in the Remutakas.

Ka kite ano,
Andrej

P.S.: Oh, yes, forgot to say: I have a thing for languages! I grew up bilingual, was surrounded by "foreign" languages during my school time in Munich (Turkish, Italian, Greek, Romanian, ... ), learnt English and Latin in school, classical Greek at Uni, and picked up bits and bobs of Italian and French, have learnt basic Spanish to be able to get around non-touristy corners of Spain, and am currently learning Te Reo. :)

P.P.S.: Fixed a spelling mistake, it's => its :)

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