Before the flight, wondering if I'll be alive after

Taking off

Landing, with quite a long glide. I was nervous and keeping too much speed.

Stopped with barely 3000 ft. left on a 6700 ft. strip. That sure wasn't short field technique.

More float

Stopped a little sooner that time

Arlene, my instructor in Pullman, probably relieved that another student lived through a first solo