How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada?

n00b question? Probably. Can I find my answer somewhere else? Nope. Do
I have any other place to turn to? Definitely not.

I'm a hobbyist programmer just out of high school. I've been dabbling
in C and Python for a while now, and would probably take up CS in
college (just a few months from now).

I was attracted to Ada because it was :
1. Sanely Object Oriented - It doesn't force OO like Java and C#.
2. Compiled - I *want* to do manual memory management so that I can at
least understand what automatic garbage collection means to me. I've
been living comfortably with Python for too long.
3. Uniform Syntax - I find C++ syntax weird. C was okay, though.

I'm sure there are other benefits, but I really don't understand what
they mean to me (yet).

So, what would an amateur, cash deprived programmer like me do to
learn Ada? There are web tutorials, for for the 95 standard. There's a
Wikibook, but I've found it incomplete at several places and there are
a lot of concepts I can't grasp. There's the reference do***ent, but I
can't make head or tail of it.

A big, warm hearted "thank you" , in advance, to anybody who helps :)

PS : Once I learn this language, I *swear* I'm writing my own
tutorials so other hobbyists can benefit.