Alice was looking around at all the other first years, nobody wanted to talk to her but she didn't mind. Not many people her age would talk to her back on the island because of the fact that she wasn't very... modern. Living as a Victorian child wasn't hard for her because she never had watched television, used a telephone, played a video game, rode in a modern car or anything. They did have a steam car because her family was rich. Although the upside was that she was allowed to read books, and read modern books too... the Victorian Historical Society didn't see it a problem for her to read books.

Alice had an extended bag in her trunk full of books but she didn't think she could get up into the trunk without knocking it over so she continued to just watch.