How much for a month in Kyoto?

Hi! I am a student studying a Bachelor of International Studies, majoring in Japanese. Recently I made friends with a group of Japanese exchange students that stayed over here in Aus for 2 months. We had so much fun and I miss them a lot, but the point is...
I plan on going over to Japan in January with an exchange program in my university. It goes to Tokyo for two weeks. (This is if I get accepted...which is likely). I will probably be given a travel grant of $2000 from university. This is great, as it will improve my Japanese a lot! But afterwards, I want to go and visit my friends! They live in Kyoto, and have already invited me to stay at their houses. (By the way, sorry if my English sounds weird... I've been thinking in Japanese for the past month lol) :sorry:
So my question is, how much is it to stay in Kyoto? And by that, I mainly mean paying for food, transport and spending money... although I have a job, I have literally no money right now so I need to make it all between now and then as well as being a student... The $2000 travel grant will cover the airfare (being around $1200) and I don't plan to spend at all in Tokyo as I want to spend as much time with my friends as possible. About a month, I guess...
Also, if anyone has some work for me, administrative or online, I already have a job but obviously I need more money so please, anything, I am quite capable of whatever you throw at me!

My knowledge of Kyoto is a bit old (4 years now) but when I was there they had these great tickets you could use of the buses for unlimited travel for either one or two days from memory - can't recommend them higher for when you inevitably go sightseeing. I think they were roughly 1000yen for a two day pass but I could be wrong and they may have gone up. But essentially I constantly found Japanese travel great value for money - particularly if you get the entire day tickets that I found most areas in Japan had. I didnt find a great deal of difference foodwise from place to place in Japan but of course it depends on your tastes - Dominoes pizzas over there cost around 4000yen... far from the $5 pizzas they have in Australia! If you eat a lot of meat it'll be more expensive again. You can live on the cheap though, just requires a bit of planning and smarts.