The first time we stepped into Canadian soil, we have a little idea about the country. The culture and people were different from where we used to live, Southeast Asia.
For readers who haven't known me before, my name is Ben (www.benalagnam.com). I worked as an overseas foreign worker in Singapore. I worked in a Singaporean company and was assigned as a technical support for customers in Southeast Asian region.
Life is good in terms of financial matters, but the downside is that I'm far away from my family. That's when I realized that I need to find a way to be with them until the rest of my life. The only way I thought to be with them is to immigrate to Canada.
Newcomers in Canada
As newcomers, we saw some things that were strange to us. Rice is not a thing that we can see in most of restaurants and soon discovered it in some Asian stores. Races are diverse. There are Filipinos, Africans, Italians, Russians, Middle Easterns, Vietnameses, Jamaicans, Europeans, and others.
Although we can get the information on the internet or in the Canadian government services regarding the process of getting benefits and legal documents, we still need someone to advise us about surviving in Canada. Every information that we get were valuable to us. We follow what our friends and relatives tell us.
How I founded MM2C
When I was in Philippines and Singapore, I told myself if only I had someone or a community where I can join to ask questions regarding immigrating to Canada, I would be the happiest applicant. Although I got in to forum sites and are very helpful in terms of telling us stories and providing good advices in the form of text and few photos, I need something where I can also view the latest scenes of Canada. I haven't got in to a community where they share videos about life of immigrants in Canada.
Because of that obstacle, I created a community Facebook page. The goal is to create a media where we can share information through videos and photos. The eye is the most powerful data sponge in our body. We get the most experience through our eyes.
Since I had named my website to MeMovingToCanada, I decided to name it MM2C for short. The facebook page that I created was named MM2C Community. In this community, I can share information mostly on videos and photos. This is the best way to show how Canada looks like in the eyes of immigrants who went to Canada, hoping for a better future.
If you want to join the community. Go and visit the facebook page MM2C Community to learn more about Canada through videos and expect the following:
- See the hilly roads of Vancouver, British Columbia
- Check out the plane fields of Calgary and Edmonton
- Know more about the diversity of Toronto
- French speakers in Quebec
- The shore of East Coast, New Brunswick
Links to help you with your journey to Canada:
www.memovingtocanada.com
www.benalagnam.com
www.facebook.com/memovingtocanada
www.canada.ca
