Letters from abroad

The Young Enterprise competition allows sixth form students to run their own company and gain real-world experience in business.

'No! Don't leave me alone!'

'Sorry Jess, you've got to work it out yourself this time.'

Our group aims to publish a cookbook containing the recipes of specialties offered by renowned local restaurants, and I was appointed to collect them.

Fast forward two hours and I am sweating profusely while I walk down the seemingly endless streets of Oxford - all alone.

I can probably write everything I know about Oxford on the back of a stamp, I think, as I desperately try to interpret directions from a printout of a Google map.

Pleading for free recipes is extremely daunting.