Sorry to spoil the fun, but allow me to report:
Me too got fed up with circuit upon circuit upon circuit and no visible improvement, and asked the instructor if I couldn't plan a navigation flight so as to keep things interesting. Surely I could! Off we went for my first ever cross-country, poorly prepared for lack of experience and no help whatever from said instructor. We took off and it began very well, but started to go down (not literally, luckily) soon afterwards - I never spotted the destination aerodrome even when we were overhead. So we headed back home immediately. And all the while, increasingly as we got nearer home, the instructor took more and more pains to make it clear I wasn't up to overland flying, pointing at how I never kept constant altitude nor constant speed and never managed to catch reference points. He was quite right - but only made me find another place to continue my "career".