This chapter opens with a description of the protagonist's first day at school. She is dressed in her normal clothes, and she tries to behave beautifully in front of her teacher, who is staring at her. She tries to make him forget what happened, but he does not. She tells him to wash his hair and pull himself together, and then she says that there is a good shampoo that she thinks works well. She says that she wants to pat her face to cheer her up, and that she will keep her mind on the lookout for delinquents in the future. She adds that if she does not have makeup, she will meet gossip aunties, and if she wears new clothes, others will do the same, and they will look better than her