Friday 19.00 2nd July<br/>Kat<br/>It’s sweet that you don’t drink much, but in the UK especially and Europe alcohol is probably more widely accepted in terms of a general beverage.  There are of course a number, an unfortunately large number of people who drink to excess but I assure you that I’m not one of them.    Wine with the meal is good, certainly our meal on the last night will have wine to accompany it.  Perhaps if you aren’t used to it we can cut down on what I thought we would do.<br/>In terms of your.Mum I think you should persuade her to hold off any decision to come over.  You would be as worried about your mum and your move and she now knows that I will be there to help you.  I would possibly suggest that she comes over and visits around Christmas, ( perhaps you can travel with her if you are able to get away for thanksgiving.  She’ll feel involved but I think you should tell her how you feel about her move and that it would worry you too much.  After all if you don’t like England you might want to move back quickly, and you will need her at home.<br/><br/>Costs will vary but you can survive on quite a low income as a student, but you should have enough at least to survive.  You should have had a student visa application at least with the, in fact the university might actually supply it, I don’t know without seeing the paperwork.  I know mine was sorted by the school when I was in the US.  This won’t allow you to work (except for cash in hand jobs), I think you would need to apply for a work visa through the British embassy, certainly I’ld apply via the US embassy if I wanted to come back to the US. Give them a ring and see what they say, you might be able to do part time work as part of your student visa, but I don’t know without seeing it.<br/>Another thing my crazy, dumb, beautiful girl is that I’ll be surprised if your classes start on the 3rd September as that’s a Saturday, suspect either it’s a typo or you misread as they probably start on the Monday, the 5th September.  School starts the same day for me so we can be with you until Sunday afternoon then we’ll need to get home and prep for the first day back.  It’s an inset day so DC is at a friend’s house while we have meetings all day.<br/>We’ll go out over that weekend and before to explore the area, Oxford is a great city to live in but there are areas where its not good to go at night.  I’ll ask some colleagues at work who went there for any tips .<br/>How did your day go, these weeks are going fast at the moment, what are your plans for the weekend?<br/><br/>Love<br/><br/>Ben x<br/>