A newbe should also go to the field during the scheduled training sessions without a plane. Watch, listen and learn while others make mistakes. Try to learn from their mistakes. Don't be in such a rush that you pick the only guy there as your instructor. Talk to some other new pilots and find out who is a good instructor... everyone is human... we all make mistakes... don't dwell on it. You might find that the one instructor that no one prefers might be the perfect fit for you. If they are careful, and talk you through tough times, and you get along... what more can you ask. No one I know of would try to wreck someones plane.

If no one got hurt and the balsa gods are still growing trees, all is right with the world.