Rebecca wakes with the bell feeling inadequately rested. Her homeroom assignment says ROOM 1 which at least in theory sounds easy to find on the map. She goes to the bathroom with another random girl on her hall, communicating in gestures since she's one of the Chinese ones apparently, and they stand around awkwardly one at a time taking turns peeing, and she splashes her face, and she stares at the map until she finds it. It's not far from the cafeteria, but the cafeteria doesn't let her in yet so she can't cut through, when she tries it, and she has to go around, which is nervewracking. Everybody she passes seems to be going somewhere else so she doesn't even have company.

Room 1 is an oddly stereotypical classroom, complete with a blackboard no teacher has ever written at, a teacher's desk with a brass sculpture of an apple bolted to it, and one of those posters about the founding of the school on a wall. Rebecca peeps in the door but loiters in the hall rather than go be cornered inside it until someone else who is meant to be at Room 1 turns up.