Sitting on my couch in the USA

I guess I just start typing, and then anyone on the Internet who stumbles across this can read. It's a strange concept when I actually step back and think about it, but here it goes.
Well, today is September 11th, 2007, and I'm sitting at home typing the first of what should be a fairly large number of blogs. I should be preparing a personal statement for law school, or studying for the LSATs, but I can't seem to get Brazil out of my head. And let's be honest, I don't work that well when the pressure is not absolute. In 27 days, I will be getting on a plane with my friend John, who will also be adding to this creation, and we'll be on our way to Sao Paolo, Brazil. A city which has a population of over 10 million, making it one of the largest in the world, and arguably, one of the more dangerous. We'll be getting off the plane in a country neither one of us has ever visited, whose language I can't speak, and searching for a bus station, whose whereabouts, to me at least, is unknown. Lucky for me, John knows some Portuguese. Hopefully he knows how to ask for directions to a bus station, but in a city of 10 million it would be a safe assumption that there is probably more than one. If you don't hear from John or I again after we land in South America, it would be a safe assumption that we are very lost...or dead. But nobody is worrying.
Our ultimate goal for the first leg of our journey is Florianópolis Brazil. Now, Florianópolis is on an island off the south western coast of the country, and this is where we plan to base our adventures and, surely, misadventures out of. As of now, we have no home, no jobs, and no idea exactly what we will be doing down there. But, like I said we are young, naive, and we have a dream, as cheesy as that may sound. The plan for the first week or two that we're there is to find a hostel to stay in, and then, drink, fish, surf, skim board, eat, explore, and mingle with that locals until we run out of money or find a place to live. The former is just as likely a possibility as the latter since neither one of us is very well financed for this endeavor. After finding a home, or at least some kind of shelter to avoid heat stroke, and the slim chance of rain, we'll probably go out searching for jobs, or just go out searching. For what do you ask? your guess is as good as mine. There are sure to be more blogs about all that though.
As of right now that's all I got for you. I should manage to type up a couple more of these before I leave, and if I don't, assume I am hard at work preparing for law school, ha. And by the way, there is a purpose to this whole thing. We want people to know what we're doing, and depending on our state of mind, while there, we don't want to forget what we've done. To everyone we know who will be in the states reading this while we are bumming around in unknown territory, feel free to be jealous and wishing you were here. Post comments: tell us what you think or what you're doing. Yell at us for doing something stupid; post suggestions on things that you've read or heard about Brazil that you think we should see or do. Hell, post the information on the flight you just bought down to see us and demand that we come to the airport and pick you up so you don't get lost. The gist of all this, keep in touch, cause we are going to be a long way away.
Alex