Travel In China

I am looking at a trip with 2 other people to either
Germany+Netherlands with Rhine Cruise
Italy and Switzerland
Turkey (Istanbul and Turquoise Coast)
China (Beijing, Xian, Gullin, Shanghai)
We went to London and Paris for 10 days and it was very busy and on the go. We want something that is simple and leisurely. We want to take in the surrounding and just relax. Also we want a place that the Cuisine is more meat and etc. A place that does not have a lot of fish or spicy food. BTW
this would be in July of 2010 so maybe somewhere wiht not a lot of tourist.

I met a guy a year and a half ago, when I say a guy I mean my dream guy, that guy that walks out of the steam and towards you in dreams, smiling and perfect… We meet 2 months before I went away to leave and teach in China for a year… Anyways we met and started dating and feel very deeply in love… I never really really thought about not going because I was close to going and I wanted to so bad… so we decided to stay together and date long distance… When I got there I just wanted to turn around and run back to him, I missed him sooooo much that if I thought about him I would burst into tears…. He was amazing to me, he was there for me, via skype, everyday… It went well for a while, other than the fact that being away from him and only getting him over skype was torture… Still I was sticking to my convictions and while struggling in Asia alone and missing him I was enjoying immersing myself in their lifestyle and exploring… I was going to stick it out…Then I started to get sad every time we talked, he was so far away, a whole day behind aswell! I felt guilty bc I felt like he thought I didn’t want to talk to him as much as he wanted to talk to me… I guess it made me sad talking to him and not being able to physically be with him.. Anyways so it got hard…I felt pressured and not happy because I wasn’t with him, he never spoke of coming he couldn’t at that time… After struggling with what to do, and dealing with being sad I ended things… We stopped talking for a few months, we talked once and a while in those in between times… But I really missed him, I thought about him everyday, he really missed me too… We decided to get back together about 4 months before I was supposed to come home…we also started planning a backpacking trip around another foreign beautiful country together for 2 months after I got home… Then one day over skype out of the blue he said, yeah so I don’t think that I can go any more.. we got in a big fight and kinda broke up, sorta I dunno I just didn’t talk to him for a few days, then I apologized and said that I wanted to call it just a fight not a break up,… things were kinda icy btwn us for a bit thou,..anyways then on facebook a few days later I saw pictures of him with another girl… He started seeing this other girl… I was sooo upset…. I cut him off and didn’t talk to him for the remainder of my time over seas… When I came home he was still with her…but calling me all the time…. I still loved him so I was still talking to him, he went to Cuba on a trip with this girl… I found out about this trip bc he texted me from Cuba telling me where he was and that he wished he were with me… I was very upset about the Cuba trip with her but his friends convinced me he missed me so much and that he must really love me and miss me if he was texting me from Cuba… I guess maybe I should have forgiven him then if I loved him as much as I do and I was going to but when he got home and we were going to go out for coffee and talk about everything he sent me a text that was meant for her… saying pretty much that he was meeting me but for her not to be mad… I yelled at him and told him to ever talk to me again… At this time I should say that I was talking to this guy that I met in Korea who was also from Canada.. this guy was my best friend there, he made me laugh and he was very sweet to me and he was now home and back in a town very close to mine… I loved him bc we were so close but I didn’t have those drunk in love feelings with him back to the dream guy…So then they broke up and I don’t remember how but we started talking again…. He said he wanted to just be friends for while bc we had gone through so much we needed time to let things cool down…. I kept up my friend ship with Korea/Canada guy then dream guy decides that he wants me back after the summer and he apologizes and says hes sorry for everything, he knows he messed up, very sincere the whole thing..But then by that time I just thought about my friend who had been there for me this whole time… so I said to dream guy… look there is someone else in my life now, I have to see where this will go….So then me Canada/Korea guy hung out romantically at my suggestion, it didn’t work out I also don’t think he really likes me like that bc he doesn’t treat me any different now, still just like a friend, I think he realizes were just friends aswell and I don’t like him like that I realized too, just friends…so I went back to dream guy and I said I know now I want to be with you, you give me butterflies you make me happy when we are together… I though finally finally we would be back together…. Now he says he found someone else that wants marriage and to settle down…. I have to move away to go to school, and he doesn’t want to go, and that he gave up on us… Christ I want to give up on him, this is all so much and if anyone actually read through this whole thing a thousand thank you’s…. !!! What do you think about this whole situation…

I don’t really know what sort of answer i expect to get as it’s not at all simple.
Basically it’s male trouble
This is the short story, and it’s still long;
I was going out with this guy for 7 months and it was pretty serious… i then went on a school trip to China for 10 days (and visited my dad in Dubai for two weeks on the way back to England). While I was in China i mad friends with a guy, and you know we got on well but nothing at all happened. Maybe there was some flirting/chemistry but nothing more than that. Anyway, being bitchy teenagers, people decided to make something of us getting on well and whilst in Dubai i called my boyfriend and it had got back to him I’d cheated on him!
We eventually cleared this up when i got back to england but he really was horrible to me from then on, and 3 weeks is a long time to go without seeing your girlfriend and i guess things weren’t really the same again. I was permanently upset because of how he was being with me and felt really low about myself, so i decided to end it.
I didn’t end it entirely of my own accord, as this guy who i’d been accused of cheating with, I’d become really close with him, just as friends but i’m not denying I liked him. I wouldn’t have cheated though, ever. Anyway… he would come round mine and we’d drink and talk and again possibly flirt a little but that’s all it was. I may have misunderstood him or something, but it sure seemed to me as though he was hinting that he liked me, that i’d have a chance with him if i weren’t with my boyfriend. He would compliment me alot and say i’d easily get someone else if i broke up with my guy. And come to my house, knowing full well it was just gonna be me and him? And tell me I deserve better?!?! Yeah obviously i’m gonna think he likes me. Then we start blatently flirting, you know the usual, suggestive texts and remarks and whatnot. He asks me alot how it’s going with my boyfriend and if i’ve finished with him yet. When I did, the guy cooled off with me, stopped talking to me.
It’s about 6 months since the trip and 4 since i ended it with my boyfriend. Me adn the guy have been on and off like crazy. One week we’re flirting and he’s round mine, leading me on. Then, for a couple of weeks we don’t talk, either cause he’s just decided to not care i’m alive or because he’s lead me on and dropped me or been an asshole in some other way, and i fall out with him. The annoying thing is he doesn’t seem to realize what he’s doing wrong, and if i were to go into detail you’d understand why i was so confused. It doesn’t help that neither of us have ever admitted we like one another, so for all i know i could just be completely misunderstanding him and hoping for nothing.
I’ve liked him since then, and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of me going off him (may i add he isn’t even really good looking, at all). Lmao - another complication - his best friend likes me ALOT. And at a few drunken parties I have kissed his best friend and regretted it after because i don’t like his friend in that way, he’s a nice guy and i love him as a friend but only that. There have been times when me and the guy i like have been flirting and touching etc, and his best friend has been upset and fallen out with him. But the guy i like messed me about before his friend came into the equation so i don’t think it’s that, but it doesn’t help.
And here’s me complaining i’m being lead on when i feel i may be doing the same thing to his friend. I feel awful but as selfish as it sounds i’m more concerned about my own feelings right now, because i’ve liked him for SO long.
I basically want some adivce, any you can give. Like how do i stop liking him, cause I realize i can’t make someone like me. Or even better, how the HELL to do i know what he’s playing at, does he like me?
Sorry it was long winded, no short way of explaining it really.
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