 I am in Thailand now in Chiang Mai. What do you do there? I am studying in English education. So you want to become an English teacher? Maybe. Maybe. You don't know. The first question is, if I want to study higher education, like a master's degree, so, like, should I take a TOEFL exam, right? Mm-hmm. What score, like, how many scores should I get to apply for the university there? Uh, it varies by each university actually, there's not a universal number. And actually a lot of universities will admit students who don't have the TOEFL score that they'd like them to have and they'll let them do what's called conditional admissions, so they'll come and start the program and do an English course through the university to get their TOEFL score up to the level that they need it to be. So for example, a friend of mine, Dan Dan from China, she just started a graduate program at GW. George Washington University, sorry. And so she was over the TOEFL requirement that she needed to get. I believe it was 26, but I'm not positive about that. But some of her friends in the program hadn't quite hit the mark, so they were going to a summer program to do some English intensive studies and get their level up to where it needed to be before they started the program in the fall. Oh, I see. So, like, what's the university like, which is famous for education? Well, I mean, it depends what kind of education you're talking about. You said you want to be an English educator, so you would be looking at schools that have really good, you know, English as a foreign language program, TESOL or TESL, they have different names, which is really hard to say, which I think it's going to require some research. The State Department has EducationUSA advising centers around the world, perhaps there might be one in Bangkok, I don't know, or there's probably an educational advisor in Bangkok who you could also go on the EducationUSA website and you might be able to get some information, but they can help you narrow down your choices of schools because some schools might have a strength in a particular kind of education, but there's in a different program, so there's no easy answer. Yeah, but there are websites. So EducationUSA is a really good resource. Their website is educationusa.info.info. But there are a couple of other websites that they probably will direct you to also. So Kaplan and Princeton Review, I think College Confidential, they have search engines that you can use to look through schools depending on various criteria, so you could put in, I'm looking for a school that has a really strong education department and is located in a city and costs under such and such amount and it can help narrow down a list for you of universities that match your criteria. So that might be helpful for you as well. And you want to make sure that you're looking at accredited schools. That's, I'm sure that might be a good piece of advice. Yeah, I think probably those websites will only direct you to accredited universities. Those schools that have been accredited by respected organizations that accredit them. You'd be able to transfer your credits to other schools. That's basically the important thing. Do you have another question? Actually, one other thing that I'm thinking about because you're interested in potentially teaching language, if you get some professional experience as a teacher, there's a Fulbright program that is specifically for teachers of... Oh, I know. Fulbright program is basically a scholarship. Yeah, so they have a scholarship that is specifically for foreign language teachers. My friend Paula was here on it this year. So if you get a little bit of professional experience first, that might be something that would be really great to look into. We got fully sponsored to go to Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania and study there and teach undergraduates there. So that's a really Fulbright... I think it's Fulbright F-L-T-A, Foreign Language Teacher something. Fulbright F-L-T-A. Yeah. Currently, I'm working with one of the projects of US Embassy here in Kabul as a communication reporting advisor. Actually, I'm seeking for admission to any good university in the US to get my master's degree in the field of mass communication and public affairs. Okay. Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of mass communication, journalism, media programs around the country. Do you have any suggestions of programs to look into? Or how we can research good programs? Have you started looking at programs yet, or are you right at the beginning of thinking about where you might want to go? Actually, I'm just at the beginning searching for good universities, but I have taken a triple exam, and I have a score of 553. Okay. Yep, PBT. Great. So probably you'll be required, once you get to the point of applying for admission, you'll probably have to take the GRE exam as well, which is kind of a general, I don't know how to describe it, like a general knowledge kind of exam that a lot of universities require just to sort of show your readiness to do graduate level education. But yeah, like Avi said, there are a lot of programs for communications in particular in the US, and probably I would suggest that maybe the place to start is to think about what area of the country you might want to be in, because the opportunities can be really different depending on parts of the country. So we're here in Washington, DC, and if you did communications here, it might be focused a little bit more on political communications and policy-oriented types of things, versus if you were in New York, it might be a little more journalism-focused, more media-based. So that might be a place to start narrowing down, because what you're going to find is that there's so many programs that it almost feels overwhelming the number of choices. So you have to start thinking about ways to narrow it down. And even, you know, I don't know if you've talked to EducationUSA in Afghanistan yet. They have some really good advisors who can help you look into whether there are any specific scholarship programs for Afghan students, because if there are schools that have specific fellowships or scholarships that you might be eligible for, obviously that would be a really good route to go as well. And you can also look also at public affairs programs, too. Those bring in some public policy and, you know, politics and international affairs. You know, in addition to taking courses on basic communications or journalism or new media, so, you know, there are a lot of options for different programs. All right. Actually, sir, I'm looking for, like I have not decided, ma'am explained very well about to narrowing it down to a specific field, but I have experience in the field of business communication. I have worked with marketing. Oh, sure. Yeah, and I have done a lot of marketing campaigns and marketing communications, like working closely with the media, writing press releases and contacting press conferences. So I think I'll be thinking of business communication and I will also contact here, the U.S. education advisory services that we have here. So I'll contact them. And what do you think about the, like, tuition fees of the master degree there? I mean, they're high, you know, we can't lie to you. It's expensive to get an education here. But, you know, there are definitely scholarship programs that you can apply to. There's financial aid available from some universities. And that's something that EducationUSA can help you because they'll be familiar with the opportunities specifically for people from Afghanistan. So they'll be able to point you a little bit more directly towards what you might be eligible for. But certainly, you know, university here is expensive. If you don't have financial aid to cover it, it's prohibitively expensive. And you might be able to look for maybe scholarships through a group like, I think there's, is it IABC, the International Association of Business Communicators or Business Communicators? I know there are, you know, there are professional groups for business communicators. You could find them on the internet that might have maybe, you know, programs to help students who are, you know, want to get an actual degree in, you know, in that profession. Yeah, I think actually the fact that you know you want to do business communications probably works in your favor because you can look for organizations that want to sponsor students to be in that field. And I think even there are some companies that will do that. If you go to the Fulbright website, they have a search engine that will let you look through scholarship opportunities that are available for various types of students. So you might take a look at that and see if there are any that are specifically for business communications or for students from Afghanistan and get a sense of who might be willing to sponsor you to come. Mohammed, thank you so much for calling. Good luck. Good luck in your search. Thank you. Bye-bye.