Sounds like you did a great job on your first day. When I was learning our pattern was from left to right or clockwise, I had a heck of a time trying to keep the plane level on right hand turns but it was the direction I learned first. Then it was much easier to turn left. Most fields I have flown at had the race track pattern so I was in a left hand turn habit myself after I quit flying at my home field. I started forcing myself to make right hand turns every day I flew. Turns out a lot of people that flew at my normal field couldn't take off or land on days the wind would change. At one fun fly event we had two pilots with that problem, I took them across the field to fly from our other boxes, they did just fine after that. I'm still a lot better doing stunts to the left but started forcing myself to fly right hand patterns this year just to get back in the groove.
The Sim will help out a lot!! Good going !!!