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I, too, would recommend C# over VB.NET. In my opinion, the language is syntactically cleaner (a result of the need for VB.NET to cater to earlier incarnations of VB, and BASIC in general). C# is also the flagship language of the .NET platform, and as such, there are some features that are easier to take advantage from C# code than from other languages. That said, it's still worthwhile to get a working knowledge of VB.NET, if only to understand code snippets that might not be in your language of choice.
Also, I would start with Windows forms development, rather than ASP.NET or PHP. Web development requires not only general programming skills, but also things specific to web development. For example, since HTTP is a 'stateless' protocol, some things work in a counter-intuitive manner. When learning programming for the first time, it would be helpful to not have these additional gotchas thrown into the mix.
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A man's knowledge is like an expanding sphere, the surface corresponding to the boundary between the known and the unknown. As the sphere grows, so does its surface; the more a man learns, the more he realizes how much he does not know. Hence, the most ignorant man thinks he knows it all. - L. Sprague de Camp
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