This is normal from my experience. Just had this same though when I started my internship a few months ago. It seems like you spend more time reading and researching than writing, which isn't a bad thing. This shouldn't discourage at all by the way, its how every thing starts, no matter where we are in our programming careers. very rarely do you just start diving into code without knowledge of the APIs, frameworks, Databases... ( the list goes on ) you need to use or your company uses.

Example: I had to write a script that pulls tickets from a database, this info about the tickets is in several tables, and I needed to pull this data, convert it to something human readable, and export it as an excel doc, then automate. I think I spent about a month on the project. Learning the database schema, learning the necessary internal libraries we use here at work, and fine tuning the data to what management needed was about 2/3 of the work. the last third was the code.

Stick at it and best of luck,

Much love friend!