Just had my first lesson!! And thought I’d give a little update in this thread!
The instructor was very patient and I really liked her teaching style. I ended up not preparing as much as I wanted to, but that’s okay because the conversation was very guided. Messed up with quite a few things 
but I wasn’t embarrassed like I usually am when I try to speak Japanese. She just corrected me, I said the correct version, and we moved on. And surprisingly I didn’t mess up any of my numbers? (I had to say a lot of dates and times)
The one thing I really struggled with was saying why I’m learning Japanese because I don’t know the answer to that myself! I’ve even talked about that on the forums a bit, I’m just learning Japanese for the sake of learning it, it’s just because I love Japanese. But I think my instructor thought I didn’t understand what she was asking. So she kept rewording the question to ask “why are you learning Japanese” in different ways lol. But other than that it went really well and I’m looking forward to next week 
I’m not really sure how many lessons I should book… I’m booking 5 for now, but I’m not sure if I can afford tutoring in the long run, especially since I suddenly have a lot more expenses and am trying to save money. But this is really important to me so I want to at least do this for a little bit. I know 5 lessons (6 counting today) isn’t enough to be fluent or anything but I’m hoping that will be enough to at least get me more comfortable speaking it?
Thanks y’all for the advice, it really helped me not be so nervous!!