Early Sunday morning (US time) we got the information needed to call Johanna directly in the afternoon with an international calling card. As we were leaving church just after noon she called me (Dad) on my cell phone and I let her know we were planning to stop on the way home, buy a card and call her in about an hour. After searching every checkout aisle at Wal-Mart for international calling cards, I realized that the domestic cards would work too (with higher rates -- as in 15 times higher!).
When we got home we immediately went to work making the call only to have the AT&T operator inform us that we 'did not need to dial the zero following the country area code.' We got out the phone book and verified the '250' for Rwanda and then dropped the next zero and were first excited to hear the sound of French network announcements (Rwanda is a former colony of Belgium) and then learned as the announcement switched to English that the number 'could not be placed' as dialed.
We were especially frustrated knowing that Johanna was on the other end (at some number) hoping to receive our call...
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