Mega Mall

So yesterday I went bowling at Mega Mall, Rabat's big mall. It was strange, almost like walking back into the US. The stores were similar to any upscale mall in the US, along with upscale kaftan stores. There was a ice rink, bowling alley, and children's play center inside. The food court had food like you'd find at a food court in the US, tacos, asian food, sushi, a kebab place named Aladdin. It wasn't like the "fast food" I'd seen in the rest of Morocco. What was strangest was the clothing. There were the jelabas and even more hijabs, but there were a lot of western clothes and more strangely western hairdos and more cutting edge western clothes. Cutting edge is the wrong word; I don't quite know how to describe it. Maybe it was that there were more piercing and hipsters and things like that. The bowling alley was a lot like the ones in the US, minus the alcohol and arcade. It was actually a lot cleaner than any I went to in the US. It was a strange experience, I guess, by living in a lower middle class neighborhood, I've gotten the least globalized part of Morocco, but the richer areas are very Americanish...