Ferang: A generic Thai word for someone of European ancestry, no matter where they may come from. i.e. a white person/foreigner. Quite literally living for the weekends right now and our first one in Mukdahan was pretty good. After lots of rice, karaoke and beer with our director and a wild Friday night of been in bed by 11pm we were ready and raring to go on Saturday morning. We headed to the pool to meet our new friends and fellow ‘ferangs’. We spent the day chilling around the pool and trying to kick start the tanning, we were the only people there as no-one in Thailand wants a tan and try to stay as pale as possible. (We are talking factor 70 sunblock everywhere, literally every moisturiser and deodorant having whitening in it and everyone
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