how to get alcohol at uni

hi! I'm starting uni next week, I'm an 18 year old girl and I've never drank alcohol before. furthermore, I've never been around alcohol before either - I'm brown and for cultural reasons no one in my family drinks. I don't even know the names of alcohol or anything related TO alcohol. however, I would really like to try alcohol at university. the only problem is that my parents keep a track of all of my money and they would thus find out if I spent money on alcohol, and they would kill me! is there any way this could be worked around? thanks

You're an adult so they shouldn't be tracking your money. Can you do something about it to stop that?

And as above, use cash.

thanks for the replies so far guys. think this is definitely where the cultural differences come in and why I'm so terrified for university. it's impossible for a lot of brown kids w strict parents to withdraw money and be rebellious like that. turning 18 and going to uni means nothing in terms of being treated like an adult by your parents

thanks for the replies so far guys. think this is definitely where the cultural differences come in and why I'm so terrified for university. it's impossible for a lot of brown kids w strict parents to withdraw money and be rebellious like that. turning 18 and going to uni means nothing in terms of being treated like an adult by your parents

hi! I'm starting uni next week, I'm an 18 year old girl and I've never drank alcohol before. furthermore, I've never been around alcohol before either - I'm brown and for cultural reasons no one in my family drinks. I don't even know the names of alcohol or anything related TO alcohol. however, I would really like to try alcohol at university. the only problem is that my parents keep a track of all of my money and they would thus find out if I spent money on alcohol, and they would kill me! is there any way this could be worked around? thanks

thanks for the replies so far guys. think this is definitely where the cultural differences come in and why I'm so terrified for university. it's impossible for a lot of brown kids w strict parents to withdraw money

i do plan on creating a new bank account at uni which my parents don't know about. and i feel silly for not having a secret fund of money saved up overtime to spend whilst at uni.

my parents can track my money because, simply, my mum asks me to show her my bank statements, and she knows how much is in my account because a lot of the money in my bank account has been gifted to me by my parents - i AM financially dependent on them. and so it would be disrespectful of me to not show them my bank statements - it doesn't matter if I'm an adult, it would still be morally incorrect to deny my parents to see how, essentially, their money has been spent. that's also why I don't want to lie to my parents - sure, I could withdraw money. they'd still want to know what it's been spent on. i live in catered accommodation and they have been very nice and bought me EVERYTHING i need for uni, so i have nothing to even tell them. and I wouldn't want to lie either because that's not nice and it's disrespectful, i can't tell them about going clubbing or drinking - itd break their hearts and make them question themselves as parents, and it's something they will NEVER understand as they have been raised their entire lives thinking differently. of course at the same time I don't want to miss out on uni life, especially not during freshers. but i can't just pull the whole "I'm 18, I'll do whatever I want" thing. that's not how it works and to assume that it's possible in this situation feels quite ethnocentric - maybe it would work in other people's households, but it won't work in mine.

i know it sounds bad but really I just want to experience what alcohol and partying is like, and I don't think I would have much care for it outside of freshers. does anyone think it'd be possible to even come across nice flatmates who wouldn't mind me taking a couple shots w them, without having my own alcohol to share, if i simply tell them I've never been drunk before?