Working with Maya

Over the past 3-4 days I have been trying hard to get to grips with Maya. Admittedly, it has been awhile since I last used the program and I have never modelled with it before so am finding this quite a challenge. Even some of the simplist tasks are proving far more difficult than need be.
The following tutorial sites have helped me slightly...

http://www.tutorialscentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=30
(a useful tutorial for creating terrain)

http://www.dianej.com/tutorial3.php
(and this one is going to be a lifesaver for animating the grass in the flower field)



Here are the results of my modelling so far....




Neither really look like what they are supposed to yet.. the first are my attempts at flowers and the second is a bin.. I am already re-making them! This modelling business is much much harder then anticipated but I am going to keep trying of course. I'm having some difficulty with the shortcut buttons in Maya using the MAC but I think I will be able to show some good results by the time I next see my group on Wednesday/Thursday.