Which toolbar displays the x y z axis angles?

Which tool bar has the x, y, z, degree angles that you can enter the axis and # of degrees you want to rotate it to?

I gave a blender project to another blender artist here on these forums to texture everything, when he returned it to me, the UI was completely different from what I remembered.

I am very new to blender and am not intimately familiar to how to use it.

I guess you mean the Properties shelf. Move the mouse over your 3D View and press N. Or you click on the little plus-icon near the top right corner: