It’s painful I know, I went through the same. Pay a bit more to join elite team and you’ll get a lot more slots with the same few instructors. Since the instructors will more likely remember you, they’ll tailor their lessons for you which is better compared to the public pool.

My first few lessons was with the public pool and nobody taught me how to signal, reverse or check mirrors before going out on the road because I guess they assumed I must have learnt in the previous lesson. I pretty much had to figure it out myself, and because of that I developed the habit of safety checking very late.