Le Mega Mall
Yesterday I was invited by one of the local hottie Moroccan AIESECers, Tima, to go ice skating (yep, ice skating in Morocco) today. So, today when I got off work around 4:30 I gave her a call to meet up. She instructed me to tell the petit taxi driver to take me to "le mega mall." After getting in the taxi and rolling on over to le mega mall, I was surprised to see a modern suburban mall set back from the street in a clearly affluent neighborhood.
I called Tima, and she came from her English-language University across the street so we could check out the mall... First off, before even entering, the most conspicuous sight was the lack of adults and the sheer number of teens and pre-teens everywhere, in some sort of pseudo-American alter-universe. These kids really do go to the mall to hang out. Tima explained to me that since school was out for the summer, the parents would drop them off for a few hours as a sort of de facto day care.
We walked past the security guards and into the mall, full of western-style stores and the obligatory food court and glass-walled elevator. Tima insisted we do the full circuit before going to check out the ice skating (they also offer bowling, it's like some sort of weird midwestern transplant). Stores such as Diesel, Geox, along with many European chains dotted the mall, there was even a, get this, Domino's Pizza. Packs of conspicuous-consumption Moroccan teenagers roamed the mall, from the age of 12 and up, resplendent in Diesel and Tommy Hilfiger (which is also very popular here).
Unfortunately, the ice-skating didn't work out (Tima had forgotten her socks), so we just ended up getting coffee and watching the hormonal feeding frenzy that is the mall food court.
I called Tima, and she came from her English-language University across the street so we could check out the mall... First off, before even entering, the most conspicuous sight was the lack of adults and the sheer number of teens and pre-teens everywhere, in some sort of pseudo-American alter-universe. These kids really do go to the mall to hang out. Tima explained to me that since school was out for the summer, the parents would drop them off for a few hours as a sort of de facto day care.
We walked past the security guards and into the mall, full of western-style stores and the obligatory food court and glass-walled elevator. Tima insisted we do the full circuit before going to check out the ice skating (they also offer bowling, it's like some sort of weird midwestern transplant). Stores such as Diesel, Geox, along with many European chains dotted the mall, there was even a, get this, Domino's Pizza. Packs of conspicuous-consumption Moroccan teenagers roamed the mall, from the age of 12 and up, resplendent in Diesel and Tommy Hilfiger (which is also very popular here).
Unfortunately, the ice-skating didn't work out (Tima had forgotten her socks), so we just ended up getting coffee and watching the hormonal feeding frenzy that is the mall food court.
posted by Isaac at 12:09 PM
2 Comments:
hey!! all these sound AMAZING!!! i'm still waiting on that postcard! hahah. 2507 County Rd C2 W Roseville, MN 55113. but anyways...shoot me an email about whats up! eyang2@wellesley.edu P.S. your writing is really good...these could go into your memoirs. :o)
Hi Isaac. I was searching on the search engines for purse & handbag related websites using the keyword purse sequence and found your awesome page with the title Le Mega Mall. I am looking for ideas on how to improve my own site using different keywords and was amazed how easy it was to find your site using the keyword purse sequence. Maybe we could do a link exchange at some point. Take care.
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