In this soup kitchen sits a nun in partial habit, sipping water and frowning at a desk. It is very irregular for adults who aren't volunteering to be at the soup kitchen. It is very irregular for expensive electronics to be in the soup kitchen. The volunteers do seem to know her; they call her "Carlotta".
"...Well," she says, although this does not really clear up the curiosity underlying her question at all, "the work was all really easy and not very important and the other kids weren't very smart or fun to talk to and while you're in school you aren't allowed to go do other things so if you do they get mad at you."