Wel­come to Cor­rer Es Mi Des­tino!

I started blog­ging in 2006 to keep in touch with fam­ily and friends back in France. I mostly wanted to post pic­tures and info about Canada, espe­cially about immi­gra­tion since I strug­gled to learn about it myself when I was into the process.

After a cou­ple of posts, I real­ized I could do much more than that and thus entered the real blog­ging world. I learned a lot about tem­plates and lay­out, cursed my com­puter and Blog­ger a few thou­sand times, read other a lot and even­tu­ally devel­oped my first Blog­ger blog. In Sep­tem­ber 2007, I took another step and moved to self-hosted WordPress.

I named my blog “Cor­rer Es Mi Des­tino” after a Manu Chao song: “Clan­des­tino”:

¡ Solo voy con mi pena !

¡ Sola va mi condena !

Cor­rer es mi destino,

Para burlar la ley.

I’ve always loved this song and often lis­tened to it when I was on the road, lost in Latin America.

Cor­rer Es Mi Des­tino is divided into 9 cat­e­gories:

• Cana­dian Life: Any­thing related to my new life under the snow. From bitch­ing about the weather to hockey games and the Stan­ley Cup, from cul­ture shock to shock­ing cul­ture, from old Europe to the New Con­ti­nent, what­ever is in my immigrant’s mind.
• Immi­gra­tion: The entire immi­gra­tion process to Canada, tips, newcomer’s first steps…
• Trends: Some­times, I read the paper and I just don’t get it. Why ? WHY ??? And don’t tell me I’m over­re­act­ing, I’m a for­mer anarchist-communist turned reg­u­lar left-wing.
• Snap­shots: Pic­tures of Canada, a coun­try seen through my eyes. Also travel pho­tog­ra­phy: France, China, Fin­land, Panamá, Costa Rica, Perú, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Aus­tralia, Sin­ga­pore, Malaysia, Thai­land, the U.S.A… and more to come I´m sure!
• On The Road: “I trav­eled the world and the seven seas…” This sec­tions is sub­di­vided into sev­eral dis­tinct trips, includ­ing Cheese-Eating Sur­ren­der Mon­keys, French Escape and French Sum­mer (France), “Bei­jing 2008″ (Olympic Games in Bei­jing)…  In Próx­ima Estación — Esper­anza, fol­low us in Cen­tral and South Amer­ica. In Down Under, come over to Aus­tralia, Sin­ga­pore, Malaysia, and Thai­land! In La Ruta Maya, explore South­ern Mex­ico, Belize, Guatemala and Hon­duras!
• Work­ing Girl: I’m a young office worker and the world is mine. Well, most of time. The rest of time, I just bitch about work, like every­one else.
• Just Blog­gin’: blog fun, memes, interviews…

I also pub­lish series every Sat­ur­day (ten posts in total). So far, there is:

• Canadian-ism (s): What defines Canada? This is a series on our icons, from peo­ple to places, from every­day life’s items to sports, from trade­marks to customs.
• How To Blog: Cov­er­ing the basic of blog­ging (set­ting up a self-hosted blog, plu­g­ins and wid­gets, mon­e­tiz­ing a blog etc.).
• How To… Canada: How to immi­grate in Canada, to work tem­porar­ily, to open a bank account, to find a job… all the basic infor­ma­tion you need to set­tle in Canada!
• Amer­i­cana: A series that explores var­i­ous aspects of life in North America.
• How To… Immi­grate To Canada: The dif­fer­ent options to immi­grate to Canada, how to make sure an appli­ca­tion is processed quickly, what hap­pens after you arrive in Canada… A must read for any­one inter­ested in immi­grat­ing to Canada!
• How To… Find A Job In Canada: I’m not a job coun­selor, and I’m not an expert. But I do know how it works in Canada and I’m hop­ing to pass along some infor­ma­tion that may not be obvi­ous to everyone.
• The Cana­dian List of Ten: Ten weeks, ten posts, ten lists and one hun­dred new Cana­dian things for you, from food to lan­guage, from city to weather.
• Ten Immi­grants, Ten Inter­views: I con­tacted ten immi­grants to Canada, who each have their own story, their own rea­sons to come to Canada, their own point of view on how life is up North in the igloos. They all answered ten ques­tions, bring­ing a new per­spec­tive on immigration.
• Ten Pho­tog­ra­phy Tips: Exam­in­ing var­i­ous aspects of pho­tog­ra­phy, with plenty of tips and examples.
• How to Avoid Fraud: Inves­ti­gat­ing ten com­mon types of fraud and how to rec­og­nize scams.
• Ten More Immi­grants for Ten More Inter­views: They are from Thai­land, India, Venezuela, Colom­bia, Mex­ico, France… and they all chose to live in Canada. Inter­view­ing ten new immi­grants to Canada.

If you want to learn more about me, visit About Zhu. This blog’s archives are located in Past. You can also look at my pic­tures (Pics) and read reviews about this blog in Fame.

Some of my pic­tures are for sale: don’t for­get to check out The Shop!

Hope you have as much fun read­ing this blog as I have writ­ing it !

Zhu — 珠