# Chateau de la Tobler

## Monday, August 25, 2008

### Me Again

Well, school has started and life rolls forward at a break neck speed.
I have an interesting class this year, with a lot of 'needy' students. I am a much 'meaner' teacher- or at least stricter and we've only been in school a few short weeks!?!? I am also teaching piano three nights a week- which I love, but might kill me off if I'm not careful.
In any case, I am loving my new apartment and enjoying Shauna as a roommate, even if we don't see a lot of each other (about fifteen minutes each morning). I LOVE walking to church. To bad school isn't that close. I would love that even more.
We have been having wonderful weather, for the most part, cloudy and often rainy most afternoons. Funny, though, I am getting excited for FALL and my wood burning fireplace. Martha has already offered me some of the pine they've got stacked at their place. Apparently it burns fast and messy, but hey, it's free!!!
So, I've just read this book I've been wanting to share with you all. It's called The Five Love Languages. It's mostly about husbands and wives, but I enjoyed it because really it's about relationships. I've been thinking a lot about it in regards to my co-workers and how I am trying this year to have a better relationship with the people I work with.
In any case, the author (Gary Chapman) talks about how there are five different ways people express love and some of the problems we have is when we do something we think is showing another person we care and they simply don't see it because they express love in a different way. The five love languages are: Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. Most people have one that springs to mind, but often a second one comes close.
Mine is Words of Affection, but I haven't decided if the second one is Quality Time or Acts of Service?!?! The entire point, of course, is that when you love someone, you are willing to show them in their love language -even if it is hard work and out of your comfort zone. I haven't figured out my co-workers yet, although I know a few it is not.
SO- What's yours??? I'm curious to know.

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