Dunk's reply is spot on. Exactly what I do. Dunk's advice is also spot on, be very patient and learn from any mistakes you make. I would also suggest having a note pad and pen handy and make some notes on what you did right and also what you did wrong. Next time out aligning you have some reference material that may just help.
Now for a war story, one of my first polar alignments I didn't even have the tracking set to sidereal. 4 hours later a mate walked past and said is your mount tracking? I can't hear the woosh woosh an EQ6 makes when it is tracking. And that was at SPSP a few years ago
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I'd like to think I can move my gear to a completely different site and be imaging prior to twilight ending, and that is with drift alignment none of this fancy smanshy software
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Enjoy yourself and please post back how get on. If I lived closer I would come and help.
Wayne