Can You Dig It?

Have you dug before? Well yesterday I had a very tiring day digging. What do I mean by digging? Basically farming and digging out the bad from the soil and keeping the good. The good in this case was maize. On Thursday, a good friend of mine, Dennis, asked if I was available for Martyrs' Day (June 3) and that he wanted to bring me to go digging. It was already an adventure walking to his village/garden to dig because you would have many Ugandans ask in Lugbara "Can the white man manage?" or "Is the white man serious about digging?" or "What's the white man doing with a hoe?"
We were at the garden, began digging at 9:00am and ended around 1:00pm.
The last time I dug was using a pick-axe to dig a septic tank in Bolivia. Even that, you cannot consider it digging compared to the farming type of digging. For us in Canada, we are too used to convenience and used to having only the farmers do the work with their tractors, not with a hoe. Here in Africa, everybody digs! The young ones are trained early in their age and continue on until they can no longer pick up a hoe.I tell you, it's one tiring yet fun experience since I had a group of individuals to talk, laugh and joke around. Would I do it again? DEFINITELY! I would do it every weekend if there's something for me to dig.