There are shops that line the roads everywhere you go here in Ghana. These shops are where the people here conduct every day business, I have seen barber shops, hair salons, clothing stores, what we might call grocery stores, and many many more. The thing that amazes me is that each store is the width of a 1 or 2 car garage and about half as deep (these are the larger ones). This is where they base their family income; in a room the size of a building we Americans use as storage sheds. I have heard that most of the stores are illegally placed and that every now and then the city will come and smash the buildings down if the people refuse to leave by a certain date. Just like that their only way of income is gone. This happens a lot because they have no place to move them, and if they do it’s just a matter of time before they are told to move again. Things like this make me grateful and blessed to be from a country with so many opportunities.