I'm going to write this blog backwards as this weekend has been one of the most incredible weekends of my life.
On Thursday we went up the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. It is very impressive to look at from the outside but I have to say that the amazing height of all the buildings around it kind of reduces the impact of the view from the top! Nevertheless it is something I have crossed off my bucket list and was a cool experience to have had.
Friday however was the real highlight of the trip so far. I went with the Aggreko team on a Desert Safari. This involved a range of activities including:
Dune Bashing
Sandboarding
Camel Riding (personal goal #1 - CHECK)
Dinner and a belly dancer show
There were also a range of other things to entertain us and the 50 or so other people at the Desert Camp. However, at 10pm everyone else went home and we were taken to another camp where we would spend the night sleeping in the desert! The Aggreko team were a bit skeptical about doing this but I persuaded them to spend the night so it was on my head if they did not enjoy it/couldn't sleep/were eaten by wild desert animals. Luckily, everyone seemed to have a good time and woke up to the once in a lifetime experience of watching the sunrise in complete isolation in the desert while someone prepared our breakfast. Words cannot possibly describe what this was like, to try and help show you how amazing it was I filmed as much as I could for this week's video (see below). It is certainly an experience I will remember for the rest of my life.
So we woke up in the desert and discussed what we wanted to do that day once returned to the city and went with the obvious choice - snowboarding. After going home and de-sanding ourselves we met at 'Ski Dubai' at the Mall of Emirates for an afternoon of skiing and snowboarding. It was quite surrel since it was about 45 degrees outside and we had been sandboarding in the desert just 20 hours previously!
On Sunday I worked in the Pastry Kitchen here at the Grand Hyatt. This was SO much fun. For those of you who don't know I run a small cake company back home, SnuggleMuffin, so it was of particular interest to me to see how they run an operation of this scale and manage to make all the lovely and intricate cakes for the entire hotel. I can't believe how much I learned in one day, i was pretty sad when the day was over.
On Sunday night I was working in the Euro Tent again for the final. It was interesting as my fellow interns were all attending as guests so they got a kick out of the fact that I was serving them beer all night! It was hard work but a lot of fun. I was definitely ready for my bed that night though as I had been up for work since 5am in the pastry kitchen and got back from the eurotent at 2am, ready to get up for work the next day at 7am!
So in one weekend I was a camel jockey, a snowboarder, a pastry chef and a footballer! Can't say I'm not making the most of my time here!
But it's not all play! We have also been busy going round our different departments at work. This week I spent time in Security, Engingeering and Procurment. I learned more than I expected to through these departmetns about hwo the hotel operates and how all the departments have to come together to make everything run smoothly.
That's all for now. Enjoy the week 3 video!
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