Perfect Oatmeal. NOT!

I said that I would share the joys, adventures and challenges of living in a country that is not your own. Well, here goes a minor challenge. I rushed off to Starbucks to get on the internet to handle some business on Skype back in the USA. I do not have a internet connection at our apartment yet (I have been using a weak signal from someone else). I noticed that the Starbucks had oatmeal like in the states. I ordered Oatmeal with all the fixins'. Normally that means in the States, hot oatmeal with raisins, nuts and brown sugar. Normally the Starbucks people are super nice but I got a look that is normally foreign from Starbucks' workers. Obviously oatmeal is not a normal breakfast here. He then asked if I wanted hot milk or cold milk on my oatmeal. I said cold, thinking that the cold milk would cool down the hot oatmeal. He served it to me and immediately I knew something was wrong! I cautiously picked up the normally too hot oatmeal and it was cold! I proceeded to open it to find cold milk poured onto dry, uncooked oatmeal. YUK!