So I rocked up in Tanzania with no real clue what I was going to be doing or who I would be doing it with. I am no longer a Saltire intern and am now a temporary Aggreko employee so technically I shouldn't really be blogging but I'm sure Katie doesn't deal in technicalities.

Anyway I've been here for 3 weeks now and it turns out my job came with a whole lot more responsibility than I thought. Basically what I have to do is manage 9 guys for all the time I'm here and get them to install a fuel system for a 50 MW temporary power station. All of these guys have been doing this job for years so it was a bit strange that I was in charge of them. Not to worry we all get on really well and they are teaching me Swahili and I'm teaching them why everybody doesn't like Ashley Cole.

The work has been a brilliant experience and we are well ahead of our target so my team and the other three teams, all of 9 or more guys have a big barbeque coming up where some of the company big wigs can come and say well done I gather. Outside of work Tanzania has been brilliant, it is a real eye opener and couldn't be more different to Dubai. The beer being a 6th of the price goes a long way to making it a much cheaper place to live/work. I leave here on the 24th, have a couple of nights in Dubai then I'm back to Glasgow on the 26th to start uni on the 27th. It'll be ood to get back to uni to get a lie in, as we all know.

As it's my last blog I thought I'd sum up a few of the finer points of my time at Aggreko:

• The discovery of brunch - like moths go to flames and sharks go to blood expats and Dubai all migrate to their 4 hour all you can eat all you can drink fests every Friday, this is totally not what I expected from Dubai and I must admit they are the best invention I have ever heard of, like the Millenium Platter/Scatter in Glasgow except, putting it nicely, your guts are a wee bit more settled after.
• Beating the boys at golf - with Stewart being from the home of golf and Innes being a self-proclaimed 5 handicapper, it was a treat for me, "the retard" as they liked to refer to me on the golf course and at every other opportunity possible, to beat them both on the golf course designed by Ernie Els. Ok I had 15 shots on Innes and 10 on Stewart but is anybody really counting.
• Activia's for like 20p a tub - enough said.

However there were a few points throughout the summer that will be slightly less well thought of when I look back at them:

• Being sprawled out on a footbridge attempting to fish my driver out of the Dubai creek whilst Innes, Stewart and our mate Andrew got a good few laughs, photos and shouts of "look at the retard" at.
• A night fuelled with Absinthe ended with one of our work colleagues having a pool of whisky and coke spilled all over here white suede couch. Polly if you or your cleaner ever read this I give you my upmost apologies for this mishap, if you look back through the chain of events somewhere I'm sure it is Stewart's fault.
• Sitting in a packed expat bar before Hearts played Tottenham in the UEFA Cup telling anyone who would listen that we could well beat them and then sitting watching the 5th goal go in and hearing "your team really are bad aren't they".

I'd like to thank Katie and everyone else at Saltire for giving me the opportunity to go to Dubai for the best part of 3 months and being a big help anytime we needed it and msot of all I'd like to thank all the people at Aggreko for the experience, the time they put in with us and all of the valuable life lessons learned. I also learned a lesson fo my own - if you ever end up ina  situation where you are in a supermarket with Stewart Mackenzie - Shaw do not, I repeat do not, let him convince you that buying 10 cans of chickpeas is a good idea. Buying 10 cans of chickpeas is never a good idea.