[Jach]

See if you can find someone to play a simple Capture Game with you on the 9x9. That is, the goal of each player is to capture say 3 of the other person's stones, then the game ends. This will help with some basic things like making sure you're keeping track of liberties, seeing how you can form two eyes (a stepping stone to forming territory) and be uncapturable, seeing which moves require a response to save a stone/group of stones, and seeing when an attempt to save a stone would be pointless (e.g. you're in a ladder).