6 Countries in 40 Days

I’ve been dumped so I’m leaving this place.  I truly don’t think I was wrong for having a problem with some things she did.  I had just booked my travel arrangements about a month ago.  I called her with my information.  I planned my arrival on the 16th, which is when her school holiday began.  After I’d already paid for the travel, she told me that she decided she was going to go to Singapore with her debate team for much of the time I was to be here.  I told her that I didn’t appreciate her not telling me when she decided to go  v. waiting several days and telling me after I’d already paid for everything.  After I got off the phone with her that night, I got on the internet and changed my plans so I would be able to spend time in Chaing Mai in the north.  I told her my change of plans, and THEN she told me that she cancelled her debate trip so she would be in Bangkok when I arrived.  Ugh!  So I again changed my plans so I would stay in Bangkok.  When I finally arrived, I couldn’t get ahold of her by calling her mobile. 

We had a couple of nice days together.  I didn’t see her for a couple of days.  She had to register yesterday for her classes.  She and I made plans to do something in the evening yesterday after she was finished registering.   She sent me a couple of text messages.  In the last one, she said "I have to go to the university…I’ll talk to you later."  To ME, that means that she would call me so we could go out as planned.  The next message I got said that she ran into the French family (she tutors them…she let me know how all of the girls at her university swoon over him) at the university and that she is going to dinner with them.  ????   So she went to dinner with them and finished at about midnight.  Some dinner.  So is it just me, or is this screwed up?  I spoke with her for a long time after she got home.  I asked her why she made plans with me, then stood me up and went out with the French people and their good looking son…I reminded her that she wrote she’d call me later.  Her response?  "See you later can mean see you tomorrow or next week.  When I hang up the phone with my friends and say this, it doesn’t mean later today."  I asked – even if you have plans with the person for that same  evening?  She said she has difficulty telling people ‘no’. I don’t know…perhaps it’s a cultural thing.  I think it’s more likely a maturity thing. 

So again my plans have changed.  I havn’t had the holidays off for three years now.  I don’t want to sit in a hotel room on Christmas Eve. I just booked passage to Australia so I can spend the holidays with Ken and his family…I don’t even know if they have plans or not.  If they do, I think I’ll head up the coast for a bit of diving.  I return to Bangkok on New Year’s Day and will spend the night here, then I’m going to Cambodia for two days.   What a quick turn around…  I am arriving in Siem Reap at 9am and depart the next day at 1930.  In Siem Reap, I’m spending the two days on a tour of Angkor Wat and many other ruins.  I really wanted to take a boat to the capital where I fly out from, but I don’t have the time…it’s a seven hour boat ride.  I then return to Bangkok for a night and leave for china the next day.  6 countries in 40 days.  I think I’ll be ready to return to work so I can rest.