A brush with Greek

So you've all heard the myth about German almost being the official language in the US but it lost by one vote, right? Well, first of all, that's not true. You can read more about that here. Last night there was this welcome party complete with buffet for all the people doing the Sommerakademie. I was sitting next to this Greek guy named Nikos. He started to recount this myth about the vote to this other American guy and me except that the vote was between English and Greek. I was just like, killing myself inside because I knew that such a vote had never taken place and that the US doesn't even have an official language. Also, as if there were that many Greek immigrants in the US during the founding years. After that he started in on the whole "every word is really Greek" thing. It was just amazing. But he totally doesn't look Greek because he's got fair skin, red hair, and like either blue or green eyes. But ya... I kinda couldn't believe what was happening because it was so stereotypical.