For backpackers, students, and new migrants who want clarity, direction, and confidence without spending hours figuring everything out alone.
A real, step-by-step guided journal for your first year in Australia
built from lived experience, not Google searches.
This isn’t just a planner — it’s your first-year playbook. With guided weekly prompts, 88-day trackers, budgeting templates, and space for reflection, you’ll feel prepared, focused, and in control — even when everything else feels new.
Starting your first
year in Australia?
This guided journal is for you!
The Story About Just Call Me Bridget Podcast
Just Call Me Bridget is a space for honest conversations about life, work, money, identity, and starting over in a new country. It’s not about having it all figured out. It’s about sharing real experiences and lessons as they happen.
What started as a personal project has grown into a community of people who are navigating similar paths and learning from each other along the way.
This is only the beginning, and I’m excited to see where it leads.
And now, it’s grown into something bigger: My First Year in Australia — a journal built from those lessons, designed to help you skip the chaos and find your footing faster.
HEY, YOU. 🤍
Your first year in Australia is a lot.
More than anyone warns you about.
One moment you feel brave and excited.
The next, you feel lonely, confused, or quietly questioning everything.
New systems. New rules. New work culture.
New version of yourself forming in real time.
This journal was created for that year.
The one where you’re learning how visas work, how money disappears faster than expected, how friendships change, how independence feels both empowering and heavy.
The year where you’re building a life from scratch.
This journal is for you if:
✨You’ve just arrived on a working holiday, student, graduate or sponsored visa and feel excited, overwhelmed, proud and scared all at once.
✨You’re figuring out work, money, visas and life in a new country while trying not to lose yourself in survival mode.
✨You feel homesick sometimes, even though this was your dream.
✨You’re making memories you already know you’ll want to remember later.
✨You want structure and guidance without being told how your journey should look.
✨You don’t want to Google every answer anymore and would rather be guided by real lived experience.
✨You want support without being told what decision to make.
Inside you'll find:
✨Weekly planners to organise your days, shifts, goals and routines so life feels less chaotic.
✨Guided prompts to reflect on what you’re feeling, learning and experiencing as the weeks pass.
✨Practical guidance for your first year in Australia things people usually learn the hard way: visas, work, money, super, 88 days, jobs, and planning your next step.
✨Space to document your adventures, wins, mistakes, friendships, and quiet moments.
✨Pages to add photos, tickets, notes and memories that turn this into a keepsake, not just a planner.
✨This journal supports you when you’re busy working and when you finally slow down.
Some weeks you’ll use it to plan and stay organised.
Other weeks you’ll use it to process emotions you didn’t expect to have.
And years from now, this will be the book you open and think:
“I can’t believe I did all of that.”
You’ll remember:
How brave you were when everything was new.
How much you grew.
The places you worked, lived and explored.
The version of you that learned how to start from scratch.
Whether you stay for one year or build a life here, this chapter deserves to be remembered.
This journal helps you live it fully
and keep it forever.
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EP 10 Jose Franco: Listen to this before you apply for a student visa in Australia!
EP 10 Jose Franco: Listen to this before you apply for a student visa in Australia!
EP 13 Rait Sagor: Tippvorm ja üüritulu - kuidas Rait valitseb nii jõusaalis kui ka kinnisvaras
EP 3 Manfred Mletsin: Austraalia maksuagent jagab infot maksusüsteemidest ja õpetusi enda teekonnast
