Over the weekend I did my first complete takeoff and landing. We were
flying a Super Blanik, and the take off went just great. Then after he
tow, release, and flying around for about 30 minutes demonstrating
some stalls and forward slips and doing some thermaling, my instructor
told me to go ahead and find my reference point and start my pattern.
This was exciting because he had not mentioned letting me land this
day. I ran through the landing check list, found my aim point, made
my downwind, base leg, and final, used the brakes to maintain my glide
slope, flared... (holding my breath)... touchdown.

My instructor said I could just stay in the cockpit and he'd spin us
around... instead I requested to get out. He said 'um ok' sort of
puzzled. I got out and started doing cartwheels and jumping up and
down! Yeah I was that excited I had just completed an entire
flight without my instructor taking back the controls!

After that we did three more pattern flights ... what a big day for a
newbie!