Glider Solo

I have been a little behind on posting about my glider progress. Well, today was a good day. We had a scattered layer at 1,100 followed by a overcast layer at 5,000. Not much room for really doing anything, but still good for training. first flight out, we took at 2,000 foot tow and did some turning and accelerated stalls. After we got back on the ground, we decided that we weern't going to be able to do any spiral dives or spins, due to no lift and the clouds. We took off on another tow, at 800 feet, the tow plane started rocking his wings very aggresivly. My instructor asked me what that meant, and I told him that it meant something was wrong. "OK, what do you do? "Get off the tow" I replied, so we pulled the line and flew an abbreviated pattern with another beutiful landing. While I was prepping for the next flight, The instructor was securing the seat cushions and harness. He just told me to go up and have a little fun. I took a 1,000 foot tow and just did a pattern flight, then hooked up to go again. I took it up to 2,000 and just could not find any lift at all, so came back and landed. I found myself in an interesting position on my second landing that I didn't much care for. I turned to base a little late and low. I usually like to be using the spoilers as needed to adjust my sink rate, but I wasn't using them at all until I was assured of the runway. Lesson learned, stay close, stay high. First solo, done.