ah i see you selected it to show us the wireframe
you can toggle "wireframe on shaded" in the view window menus (i can't remember which one, i dont have maya infront of me)
4 days isn't bad, even though Kurt did it in a short time, he would have done it a few times before (or maybe just once) so he could predict any mistakes and figure out how to avoid them before hand
besides, you said this was the first thing you did when you booted maya for the first time, so 4 days is actually really good
now, if you can repeat the thing and do it in 4 hours without the aid of the tutorial then you know you definately learnt something!
that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"
Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D