/lit/ - Literature

I didn't realize how lonely I'd be here. I've always been a fairly solitary person but up until now I've never really felt completely alone. I'm living half way around the world with everything and everyone I love from home thousands of miles away. I don't know a soul here outside of my coworkers and many of them are older than me by a decade or more or already have a group of people they've befriended and spend time with making it hard to form any kind of bond. The fact that everyone has different days off doesn't help either. Add to that the fact that I'm very clearly an alien in a foreign land and the language is nearly indecipherable to a westerner unless they've thoroughly studied it before coming. It makes all the little things so much more difficult.

I'll be going to Japan to be an ESL teacher in about 3 weeks. I've been working for this for about a year now so it's something I've been wanting to do. However, this will be my first big boy job out of college and the first time I'm moving far away from home without the ability to come back for awhile so my nerves are starting to get to me now that everything's coming together so quickly. Basically, I'm looking for something to read that can help assuage my nerves, preferably something shorter. Any recs?