I have finally learned how to purl! (You have no idea how excited I am) I can now start knitting my own scarf. Specifically, this upcoming Thursday I will buy my wool and update you further.
Yesterday + Today consisted of purl practice. Thankfully a friend of mine was able to give me some good tips so I now have the purl technique down pat.
What I accomplished over the past two days:

Here is a tutorial of the purl stitch that I created:

I will post again once I have my wool picked out! I should probably keep practicing until then though. Ttyl.