Yeah mines like the same, it's a 55 plate but i think both ours will be Corsa C's, i wouldn't imagine there was too much difference between ours, i think its the newer ones which tend to have more differences, my sister in law has a newer one i might have to ask her to let me have a go in a car park in a couple of months, although i won't be changing my car for a long while yet anyway, but i do like Corsas so i could well stick with them.
And yeah my step-dad's just off, no problems. Although cos mines a box i checked his scores when he took it to the garage, he got me a 4/10 and 5/10 :0 hasn't effected my score too much though, he definitely drives better in his 'posh' car haha
And ahh i see, i think you'll soon just adjust, i think my clutch on the car i learnt on was around half way, but tbh i don't have a clue anymore and that wasn't long ago at all really, and i find mine will happily move on clutch only, even uphill which i find pretty weird, but it came in handy when my handbrake went lol, when i first got mine i was in and out of it every minute haha :') not even driving it, just popping out to get something, or to check something etc :')