Your were definetely not ready to be flying without the assisted instructor via a training cord. One of the most important manuevers to learn while learning to fly, and you do not see this one preached around is to taxi your trainer around without the wings on, but do cover the entire wing opening and hold it with masking tape, as it will get a lot of oily exhaust residue from the engine, taxi the airplane around and when coming directly toward you, mentally call a right turn, then a left turn and so on until you can automatically do it without hesitation when practicing on the air remember to straighten the airplane out of a curve you must always push the stick toward the low wing and practice and practice until this is second nature to you, very important manuever to become proficient at flying, and by the way, we have all done that mistake, only thing is the ones still in the hobby learned how to get over it.