Christina,

I tell you this with an awful lot of years experience under my belt as a police firearms instructor - DON'T go shooting with a friend that "knows how to shoot." Bad mistake. Find yourself someone with training and experience as a firearms instructor to learn from. Practice makes perfect is the biggest misnomer out there - only perfect practice makes perfect.

By finding yourself a "professional" instructor up front, you'll learn to properly apply the fundamentals of marksmanship - without picking up bad habits that a "professional" will have to correct later...

My absolute best wishes to you...

M