It's definitely a lot at once. Like just finding yourself in a totally different world is bad enough in itself, let alone everything else.

[The whole arrival situation was layers of traumatic, not just weird, and he wonders how the people who have been here awhile have dealt with it.]

I wonder if they want us to all get to know each other since we have nothing else to do?

[It seems strange to lock a bunch of people together in one place 'for their own good' and then not provide anything particularly entertaining to do, so maybe there's an actual reason for it.]