Oh, it's just a friendly chat with your examiner where you act out a little scene, then talk about a topic like festivals or hobbies. They score your communication and vocabulary, mostly. It was easy because I practice English every day selling vegetables with my mother at the market—you learn to explain things clearly to customers.

First, look for them on the official government education website of that country; a real university will be listed there. Chayon, please be more careful than my brother was. He paid fees to a place that was just a photo on a website, and now I work extra hours so he can try again. Trust only what you can verify through the embassy, not the promises on a webpage.

It's about the numbers you start with, Chayon. 3/8 comes from 8, which is made from 2s (2x2x2), so it fits perfectly into our base-10 system after some steps. 1/3, from the prime number 3, just doesn't fit, so the decimal goes on forever, trying to reach the exact value. I see it when I try to evenly divide my chalk into pieces for my students—some sizes just don't split neatly into tenths, no matter how carefully I break them. That's why we must learn both decimals and fractions, to keep the whole picture.

Chayon, I was making eggs for my mother this morning when my brother called from college. He said his friend in Delhi works off the books in a garment shop—no PF, no bonus, just cash in hand. I thought of our neighbor who lost two months’ pay when the owner packed up overnight. These big films about leaders, they never show the men who stitch the costumes.

Tonight's late kickoff means I'll be grading papers by the lantern again, the radio whispering the Sevilla score. Each cheer from our neighbours feels like a pebble I add to my collection for chayon who love the game. It reminds me of waiting up for Appa, listening to his old transistor.