The only thing here that would give me any cause for concern would be that your instructor didn't do/ demo to you a full pre=flight check before your exercise. Other than that you said yourself it was your first flight, were you really expecting to be taught how to t/o, climb, turn, descend and land an aircraft before you've even covered the effects of controls?
Questions I'd be asking you would be, did you receive a pre-flight brief covering the content of the exercise to be flown? Did you then go and fly what was intended? Did you receive a debrief afterwards covering any salient points?
The first flight that we teach at the FTO/ATO (EASA ergh) in europe where I work is simply the effects of controls. The overall aim of the exercise is to be able to set an attitude hold it and trim (accurately). Spending time learning this incredibly important skill on the first exercise is much much much more important than you getting to take off / land on your first flight.
Relax, keep studying and let your instructor teach you. If in doubt about anything ask your instructor first. Im sure he/she has a good reason for doing things the way they do. If after a while you are not progressing and not happy then see your chief instructor and request a change.