Intro - Sina

Hello Everyone!

My name is Sina, I am the third daughter (before Yanah after Katie) of Lagi Partsch- daughter of Karl & Tusi Partsch.  I am 26 years old and live in the south island of New Zealand with my boyfriend Richie, dog and cat. We both work in the wine industry.  I move in between working in a vineyard and winery- starting from the young vine to the finished product in the bottle and Richie works as winemaker for a family owned estate called Wairau river wines. Great jobs- if you like rural life and wine of course!  We are hoping to move more into the country, to have our own orchard and to make our own Cider and Wine. We love fishing, going to the river or beach and going on road trips.

I'm not working at the moment because I am 41 weeks pregnant- good excuse huh?   This will be our first kid, we are rather excited. It will be Mums fifth grandchild and my dads parents will be great-grandparents.  Maybe by the time you read this I will have had the baby. Very exciting stuff.

Had a great ol time growing up with the cousins and family and was lucky enough to live next door to Grandma & Pa, Oscar, Lani, Uncle Karl and Aunty Nikki. Uncle Oscar and Villiamu were never far away either. To all of Oscars children- your dad was HILLARIOUS!! and soooo loveable, what a great man. For Epi, Eddie and Tusi- Uncle Villiamu was also a comedian, an AMAZING family man and always made sure everyone was okay. I wasn't old enough to clearly remember Aunty Sa but from what I have heard she was pretty cool and is dearly missed.

My memories of Grandma was that she was very cuddly, smiley, great at playing Suipi, helped lots of people in the community with her magical fofo and before I went off to school would always reach under the mattress to give me a coin- even if it was only 20c. She was the best and so so caring. My memories of Grandpa was that he was strong, he was the security, he made sure everyone was okay and he loved the T.A.B. Someone once said that the T.A.B in Newtown kept him alive longer because in order to get there he had to go up and down a steep hill! He HAD to exercise if wanted to play. They both were great and loved Lani and Oscar heeeappppsss!!!!

So I think it would be O-wesome (with a capital O of course) if more of us could catch up, although it's not so easy with everyone everywhere and everything being so expensive!  But if any of the family from the states or elsewhere, even the ones we don't really know well, want to visit NZ they will always have a place to rest their head and a plate of hot food waiting for them!! Maybe even a cheeky glass of wine.

Well take care all, Love yas and catch up soon!!
xxx

 P.S  -  If you get a strong white streak of hair instead of grey hair all over remember it's from Grandma!