Try to develop a data-structure first.
Once you have this worked out, the rest should follow quite easily.
A programm can only do what YOU want it to do. If you do not know what you want the software to be doing, you should be doing some thinking about what you want it to do.
So, think about a phone-book and its data and then you will find the rest fairly simple.
Btw.: If your tutor is abroad, he might still be reading his e-mails once in a while. And probably, just probably, he might not have made all his students except you come abroad with him so there just might be others to ask. And as a last ressort, there is this mystique thing called "textbook".