Still Waiting

All right, so I e-mailed Tibet University. They took a week to finally respond and then the answer to my question of application status was: we're giving our final answers in the beginning of August. We'll e-mail you when we have a permit for you.

It's tough to know if they mean I will get a permit, the individual with whom I correspond doesn't have perfect english. At least I didn't receive an outright "you aren't in the program. Stop bothering us," which is essentially what I received a year ago.

My hopes are still up, though not as high as I would like them to be. They leave very little time for planning and travel arrangements. They also don't have a specific day on which the semester consistently starts. It's sometime the beginning of September. Ah well, I'll just wait two more weeks and hope for the best.