prayer and hijab and being "out"

I've been working on prayer. I wish I could get more consistent. Insha Allah I will get better at it. One thing I think would help me is if I could spend some time working on memorizing the whole thing in both English and Arabic. For now I have it written down (in both). I memorize well by writing things down repeatedly, so it might come down to doing that. I know the positions and some of what to say without looking, but it still feels kind of fragmented and like I'm thinking about what I'm doing. I wish it could just flow for me. I think all this but with school I'm already learning other stuff but hope to either know it by the time I'm done or I'll work on it then. I don't want it to feel like a burden or that won't work good for me. The intention is to learn it though. I want to get a prayer mat too, praying on my hardwood floors is not very comfortable! So I'll see about ordering one soon.

Yesterday I went out, and it was cold and rainy which means it's scarf weather! I put mine on like hijab style and loved it, but some of my hair was showing and then I didn't feel like going out that way. I really don't want to do it half way or quite yet. I don't know. Maybe I need to work up to it. Not sure. I feel like I'm working on other things with my faith right now. Like that isn't the largest priority. I'm otherwise modest in my dress, but I'm not ready to be "out" as a Muslim yet or have people ask me questions or feel like some kind of representative of the religion or anything. I can't deal with that right now. Insha Allah that will get easier too.