Everything you always wanted to know about Maks...
Uh, 'everything'?
Well, not everything (not yet, anyway)!
But you can always mail me and ask!

Okay, let's get started:
Originally the letters 'M', 'A', 'K' and 'S' stood for

When Auk and I separated in october 1999, the letter 'A' was vacant. So I decided to get me a boyfriend with the first name 'A-something'. Found one in 2000. His name is Anne. No, it's not 'her' name! He is a 'he' alright. I checked that. So why the name? Well, just think of the song 'A boy named Sue' by Johnny Cash....*grin*. Uh, just kidding. In the Netherlands it's kind of alright to name your son Anne. It's a tradition from some part of this country. At least that's what they told me. So if I ever have a son, I'm gonna name him... Nope, *grin* I wouldn't! Or would I?
Ah, enaugh about that. Let's go about this 'whois' in a more orderly manner, starting with me:
I am Kirsten Elvers, nickname Kiki,
born on 5th of december 1962 in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Because of my Dutch grandmother (from Rotterdam) I am ¼ Dutch (yeah, you're right, that makes me ¾ German). In 1981 (when I was 18 years old) my family and I moved to the village of Monster in the Netherlands.
During the years before that I lived in
In the Netherlands I attended the German High School in The Hague ('Deutsche Auslandschule Den Haag').
After graduation ('Abitur') in 1984 I moved to The Hague and started studying Psychology at the University of Leiden ('Rijksuniversiteit Leiden').
At the same time I fell in love with Auk, the Afro-Surinamese father-to-be of my 2 daughters.
In 1985 Auk and I moved to a small house in the Zeeheldenkwartier of The Hague.

At the moment I still live in the same neighbourhood, together with my 2 daughters Shari-Yana (born in 1988) en Malaika (born in 1994). Living with us are

- and that's it, because over the years Auk and I had gradually fallen out of love. In october 1999 we decided to go our separate ways...

If you'd like to know more about the current 'significant other' in my life (remember: Anne, the guy I found for the vacant letter 'A' in 'maks') you might want to have a look at this public loveletter.)

From october 1996 until october 1998 the kids and I lived in Suriname.
Actually we had intended to stay there for at least 10 years, but after only 2 years we had to move back to the Netherlands. (Couldn't make ends meet with an income of NF 300,- per month, while paying NF 250,- per month to rent a place to live in...).
According to Surinamese custom, I called out my name before getting on the plane back to Europe. The Surinamese people believe that one's soul will stay behind if not invited to board the plane. Hm, I guess that at least part of my soul decided not to come along, since I still get very homesick when thinking about that beautiful country in South-America and the friends I had to leave behind...

Oh, perhaps you wonder why I'm telling you all this?
Actually because I'm looking for a new job.
For the past 2 years I have been working as a teacher at the Mondriaan School of Nursing in Leide - during the sick-leave of 2 collegues. Both of them have started working again, so there's no more work for me...

Uh, I had to correct those sentences above. Starting on the 1st of august 2000 I have been working as a teacher at Mondriaan again. But, well, it never hurts to look around. So, if YOU should happen to know about any interesting jobs: send me an e-mail please?

Back to 'info about Kirsten': What do I do in my spare time (except sitting around as a couchpatato watching tv)? Prefarably, I spend my time:

I have to confess that since august 2000 I've spend quite a lot of my spare time working on a 'lover-project'. One day I might add a report on that project to my pages here - but don't hold your breath! ;-)

Me and my pc:
When studying at the University of Leiden I had discovered the advantages of a 'pc as a typewriter', using word perfect (and I played pac-man from time to time). :-)
When staying in Suriname I worked with windows for the first time (mostly word) at the office of the VPSI. At home my pc helped me to avoid gigantic phonebills by allowing me to e-mail (pegasus) with friends in Germany and the Netherlands (which was great, even if I had to get up in the middle of the night for a dial-up to telesur).
Back in the Netherlands I bought a pc that could open a webpage in less than a couple of minutes :-), so I started surfing the web enthusiastically.
In 1999 my daughter Shari taught me how to chat with mirc. During my very first chat-sessions with mirc someone told me about icq, so I decided to d/l and install icq, resulting in some interesting conversations (about life and stuff) with icq-users from all over the world.
In 2000 I surfed across the Cursus HTML written by Michael Doel. According to Michael's instructions I built my very first homepage: moorhuhnpage.
Later on that year I bought a scanner to add pics to my next homepage. I also installed napster (just in time to d/l some music before almost everything was blocked) and I also got me a CDwriter.

Meanwhile my kids developed a slight Sims-addiction...

To be continued...

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