I contacted my Placement Officer today (I called instead of email)! She is sooo friendly :)
Here is some of the news she gave me:
I will not be leaving for my original nomination (August, SubSaharn Africa, business advising) because the program has filled up. So I can officially let that go. She explained that this is due to reduced opportunities and the federal budget cuts (more details about that are in a previous post). She explained that they will be looking for departure dates between oct-march and that she will be contacting me in the next 3-4 weeks.
She said they have not forgotten about me :)
I feel overall pretty good about this phone call. Now, I know for sure I am not leaving for my nomination and that it sounds like all of the August programs may be filled (since they said they will look between oct-march). I like that I have a time frame of when she will contact me but I understand that that may not happen in the exact time frame given.
