Finally managed to organize a phone call to the Ukraine. You see, my cousin Mariya has been waiting for my call, and finally i was able to phone her. Here is what happened...
I first needed to find someone whom can speak Ukrainian, which i did. I phoned the local Ukraine community, and explained my situation... basically I found a cousin, and needed to phone her, but with someone whom can speak Ukrainian language. No problems - it can be done she said.
Good.
So i organise quite a few questions, type them out, and mark them 1 to 15. Next i get a phone card for cheap calling rates, it was suggested i get a 'click' phone card, but i couldnt see this one so i got Oasis.
I leave my house to meet this person whom is making the phone call. I get there and wait a short while for her whilst she finishes her class.. We meet and briefly chatted and then headed off to another room where we phoned. She enters the code for the Oasis phone card, (the talk time was for 50mins) and phoned the land line in the Ukraine - a child answers and plays with the phone whilst my caller tries to ask for his mother, but the child hangs up. So we phone back on the mobile, Mariya doesnt answer. For some reason, Oasis took 2X10 mins increments off our 2 calls, even though the first call was for 30secs, and the 2nd call no one answered. We phoned again the land line, a male adult answered - he didnt trust whom we were. So he didnt want to speak any further. Great.
We take a short break, and phone back in about 15mins. We first phoned the land line, no answer at all now. Oasis had taken another 10min increment off my call card time. We phoned again, but now on the mobile - Oasis said we could make the call because we didnt have enough credit - go figure -we spoke only on 2 calls, 30sec, and about 2mins. And now our time is up, we only have 10 mins left but we need more credit to phone again. RIPPED OFF.
So next we use my mobile, without any calling cards.
Things weren't looking good for this connection with Mariya, i was getting rather dissapointed as i also didnt want to take up to much of my callers time. We tried the mobile again - bingo, we got through and Mariya answered. My caller asked away all the questions, and Mariya answered what she could, or said she will find/make enquiries. My caller wrote the answers down according to the question number on a peice of paper so that way it was easier later to recognise which answer was for which question -as trying to phone, listen and write can be a bit of a mission - i guess woman are better at multi-taking though.
It was good to finally get in contact with her, even though i wasnt the one doing the talking i could at least hear her as the speakerphone was on.
My caller said we were ripped off with this Oasis phone card, and i guess she is right - i will not use them EVER again, and i suggest anyone else whom phones the Ukraine, not to use them.
Big thanks to my Ukrainian speaker whom made the call for me.
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