About This Blog
Welcome to “Correr Es Mi Destino“!
I started this blog in late 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. The move wasn’t that smooth and I had to learn again a lot of themes, graphic and php, but here I am today !
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
Perdido en el corazn
De la grande Babylon
Me dicen el clandestino
Por no llevar papel
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 12 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 whole immigration process to Canada, tips, newcomer’s first steps… Come on enjoy the Maple Leaf country !
- Society : sometimes, I read the paper and I just don’t get it. Why ? WHY ??? And don’t tell me I’m overreacting okay, I’m a former anarchist-communist turned left-wing.
- Snapshots: pictures of Canada - a country seen through my eyes.
- On The Road : “I traveled the world and the seven seas…“. Well, maybe not the seven seas, but over twenty countries. I miss it. Really.
- 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…
- Moods: moody drawings.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: a 2008 trip to France.
- En Français: quelques articles en français, principalement reliés au processus d’immigration au Canada (étapes, délais…) et à la politique française.
- 中文： 對！我會說漢語！我學漢語學了十二年了…
I also publish series every Saturday (ten posts in total). So far, there is:
- Canadian-ism (s): what defines Canada? I’m starting a series on our icons, from people to places, from everyday life’s items to sports, from trademarks to customs. Don’t expect anything too deep: this is Canada the way I see it. I don’t bring answers. I just want to share, and I will with you every Saturday — enjoy!
- 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 basics you need to settle in Canada!
I started this blog for fun. I also have to confess that I’ve always been a pretty good writer in French and wondered whether I could write in English… I’m sure my grammar isn’t perfect but so far, it’s a great experience..
Hope you have as much fun reading this blog that I have writing it !
Zhu - 珠
Hi Zhu,
Just came from Internet Marketing Blog of which I am a recent subscriber. The review was intriguing so I just had to check out your site. The graphics and layout I like very much. I am at a place where you were last year. Grappling over a new environment called Wordpress. I thought that it would entail only a few days of familiarization but two weeks have passed and I am still feeling like an ‘alien’. The reason for this is that my ambitions have migrated from mere transient explorer to one of wanting to become a full resident with privileges of being able to set up a whole new house with interiors that will set me apart from the others. Which, hats off to you, you have done.
How about starting a series of tutorials about your Wordpress journey and sharing your learnings with us similarly motivated adventurers and explorers.
Thanks!
Ana
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Hi Zhu!
I was just reading your snowy post. I bet my rolling eyes dont come out up top and just the stupid world
… well as I’ve been telling some of your fellow Canadian bloggers I am NOT really in the Xmasssy mood at all this year. But at least you get the bloody snow to go with it!!!
;->…
Gledwood’s last blog post..Weary Rainy Furry Afternoon…
Hello. I found you because you found me, at least according to BlogCatalog. I just wanted to say hello; I find your blog very informative about plenty of things Canadian. I live here in Buffalo and is very curious what lies north. Happy blogging!
Thanks for visiting my site! I’m also a Chinese Canadian, so we have some things in common!
Hi,
My name is Caren. I deal with your site through Text-Link-Ads.com and quite pleased with this cooperation but have bought already all that is offered there.
I have a very good credit card website that takes its place in the Google top 10 credit card sites.
I would like to buy links at other pages of your site. Please let me know if you are interested and how much you charge via email.
Thank you for your time,
Regards,
Caren.
Very intersting blog, I’ll “come back” , no time today!
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Hello, Zhu! I haven’t stopped by for awhile so thought I would… I was listening to Manu Chao the other day and heard that line of lyrics “correr es mi destino” and I gasped. LOL. Then I realized where you got it from.
Hope you’re doing well. If you didn’t know, I moved my blog. I don’t discuss only travel and culture on this blog. It’s a mix. I got tired of keeping 3 different blogs up for various topics!
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Meandered in from J.Tadlock’s forum. You have a very nice site. Loved your ” Get over it, I’m a Canadian and I complain about the winter ” quote. I get what you mean by it — by US standards — was in Minneaps for 3 years till I moved south. Nice effervescent blog …
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I never read this bio before. I like the café photo as well…and I can understand the español. Very nice.
Scarlets last great read…why i do what i do
here is my msn ,985837@163.com ,welcome to china .
This is a gorgeous site! What great artwork. Wish I could learn how you did the graphics–I’m in the process of moving my blog from iWeb to Wordpress and only just learning how to use Wordpress. This is very, very impressive.
Wandered over here from Mrs. Micah’s post on how newcomers to the U.S. build credit. Excellent post…one of my clients from the Netherlands, now living in Japan, revealed that writing a check on the banks she uses is challenging. I didn’t realize that Europeans rarely use credit cards, either. Your description of all the come-ons you got after you arrived in Canada is amazing! It’s no wonder the U.S. economy is collapsing–it’s build on scam. Hope it doesn’t take Canada down with it.