Landings, Landings, and more Landings

Well, Saturday morning is once again here. I walk in and Lance greets me. "Go preflight, I'll be there in a minute." After I'm done preflighting, here comes Lance. "Today, you will learn how to land an airplane." OK, well, what goes up must come down. Now I'm beginning to run the radios some. The lingo comes prety easy, and basically, you are nothing more than a Parrot. They tell you what to do and you repeat it. You tell them what you want, they repeat it. "Lubbock ground, Cherokee 828 Mike Charlie, remain in the Pattern, Ready to Taxi. "Cherokee 8 Mike Charlie squawk VFR Taxi 17 right Sierra via Lima. We head out and do our runup checklist and announce that we are ready for departure. We are cleared for takeoff, and told to make right closed traffic. After we turn downwind, I run through the landing checklist. Lance tells me when to reduce power, and start adding flaps. After turning base, then final, I begin to line up with the runway. Lance mentions that he will run the throttle this time. I just need to worry about the landing. After we make the numbers, Lance pulls the throttle to idle. I keep the nose coming down, then Lance tells me to start feeding the yoke back to hold the plane off. I didn't really pull the yoke back fast enough and my first attempt was a little flat. Retract flaps, and add full power. Take off and try it again. A couple more times and I'm really nailing them in. Now, I get the throttle, too. A few more and I've got this thing figured out. I even had a few landings that were so smooth, you never even felt the gear touch. You just heard the wheels start spinning. Now that is smooth.