"A c-cyborg?!" Matilda stuttered, a little alarmed. Her eyes widened to saucer-like proportions behind her lenses and she adjusted them nervously. But then of course she just had to say something dumb like...
"You mean like the terminator?" she asked, her voice calmer "Wow! I should love to know how that works. What computer sys-"
She bit her tongue as she realised she was launching into full-out geek mode - which was quite rare for her as she didn't know she possessed speech brakes before. Normally she just ploughed out through her science talk but it was the first day and she supposed she'd like to end it with a least some friends. 
"Sorry" she apologised, grinning "I'm a tad inquisitive! People also get creeped out and move away when I launch into proper nerd speak..."
She realised then that the pretty, shy girl was saying something. She appeared to start in a different language but settling it into a 'hello'.
"Hello", Matilda said brightly.
God, Matilda thought. This is perhaps the most people she had talked to in a single day!
"Interesting language - I come from England so I know what a different country feels like. Though at least I don't have to contest with a different language..."
Out the corner of her eye, she noticed another boy and a girl - who looked pretty enough to be a [i]goddess[/i] - enter the room. Why did everyone here look like supermodels?! She tried not to feel self conscious...