If this is your second day in the Perl world, I would suggest that trying to work with the Catalyst framework is probably premature. I think that you should nail down the basics of Perl before going into Catalyst or any other similar large-scale framework. Otherwise, you're going to make the learning curve much steeper than it needs to be.

IMHO, you should grab a good tutorial or introductory book on Perl (e.g. Learning Perl), get a good understanding on the basic concepts and syntax, spend a couple of weeks on that, and come back to Catalyst afterwards.

Update: fixed a typo: s/leaning/learning/;