Aleksei had to laugh at the small-town comment. "All I've ever known are small towns." He admitted, looking around the place. "This is actually a bit nicer than the town I came from, but small all the same." He admitted, shrugging his shoulders a bit. "I grew up in Louisiana. It was twenty minutes to a Starbucks and an hour to a target." It was like growing up in Antarctica or something, completely isolated.
"Strawberry? She has a teacher relative or something." That was the extent he knew about that girl. Really, he knew enough about everyone who had been there over a year to have a detail or two about them, but he didn't know everyone personally. It wasn't that small a town.
Aleksei went ahead and started eating the muffin, spying the sandwich on it's way. He took a few minutes to chew and swallow all gentlemanly like before he spoke again. "We usually get a little downtime between weird events. I know, the teachers are really jaded to this whole thing and don't realize the new people are still too freaked out to do homework."
He laughed, just a little. "And that was a hell of an event for the new kids to go with. Mine wasn't nearly as terrifying." He was pretty sure the first weird event was something Disney-related, something really touchy-feely. Not you know, throw into a hedge maze and scare the shit out of everyone and have like all the new kids die.
It looked like Alice was trying to figure out a way to get at the sandwich without any of it getting on her and Aleksei had to hold back a laugh. He didn't like to laugh at other people's expense - well no, he did, but not in this kind of situation. "I promise I will not judge you if you get mustard on your chin or something. I will tell you, though, so you don't walk around with food on your face all day."