My first time writing a blog, and to be honest I don't really read blogs, so I'm not quite sure where to go with this. From what I can tell, blogs are 'Dear Diary' posts that people intentionally publish, and those two concepts, 'public', and 'diary', seem mutually exclusive to me. Maybe that's just my idea of a diary as a very emotional, private affair, which isn't necessarily true... Anyways. I leave for Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, in less than a month. Salvador is in Northern Brazil, on the coast, and is referred to as 'da Bahia' because it is in the state of Bahia, Brazil. It's full name is ' Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos', which means 'City of the Holy Savior of the Bay of all the Saints', which is a headache to English-speakers considering all the prepositions, and a headache to all Portuguese-speakers listening to that botched pronunciation. So Salvador it is. Salvador is the capit