CHAPTER 1
I, Rachel Berry am excited. Today is my first day of school in Australia, where I am doing a foreign exchange program. I was brought to a small town called Albury, which was on the border of New South Wales and Victoria. I was enrolled at Albury High School, and weird enough, this school had uniforms. The uniform for summer was a simple plaid dress with the colours red, black, and white crossed on it, the sweater was plain red, but you could also get red hoodies with the school logo on it. The winter uniform, however, was even weirder. It was a full length skirt that was black, red, and a little white all in a plaid pattern, like the summer dress. The shirt was a long sleeved plain white blouse, and a black and white striped tie. Yep, this uniform was definitely weird. But to top it all off, they had a separate sport uniform. It was shorts with a white shirt with the school logo on it, I mean, sure McKinley had uniforms, but that was only for the Cheerios or the jocks, not for normal people, like me. It was summer, so I was wearing her dress, but it was warm enough that I did not need my sweater, I had my hair up in a tight pony tail, with my bangs down. I was living with a host family, the Smiths. There is a boy the same age as me, who was quite cute but I am aware that a relationship made in a country other than my own is dangerous, the boy's name was Jacob, there was also a younger girl named Jessica, who was 13, and apparently in 'year 7' starting her first year of high school. I am in year 10, which confused me more than almost anything. So I ran downstairs and grabbed a slice of toast, and smeared peanut butter on it, 'Australian peanut butter is so good!' I thought to myself as I ran out the door to get to the bus stop.
When I got to the bus stop, Jacob and Jess were already there, and the bus was just down the road. The busses here weren't yellow like back at home, they are white and red or white and green. Very weird. I got on the bus and put my iPod touch earphones into my ears when all of a sudden someone was sitting next to me. "Hi! I'm Sam, what's your name?" a perky girl with dyed blonde hair asked me, holding out her hand for me to shake. "Rachel Berry. I'm the American exchange student." I say, taking her hand and shaking it lightly. "Oh cool! Hey, i love your accent! You should hang out with me and my friends." she smiled lightly at me "Thank you! Really? That would be lovely. So is there a glee club at this school?" I smiled back at her, but she suddenly looked confused. "Uh, a what? I've never heard of that. What is it?" i just looked at her surprised. "You've never heard of a glee club? It's a club where you sing songs and dance and you compete in competitions. My glee club came 12th at nationals last year" she smiled at me again, "That's great! But no, we don't have that here. We have choir though, where you just sing, but no competitions. We also have dance class, I'm in that, you should join it." She said. "Yeah that sounds great!" Then the bus pulled up at school and we walked in.