Hiragana fun and random stuff

I learned FIVE new hiragana characters today! They were actually remarkably easy to remember, though again, I write like a two-year-old. 

ha - は

hi - ひ

fu - ふ

he - へ

ho - ほ

I really have no idea what fu is doing in there, but sure, why not? は and ほ are easy to remember because they're almost the same (as long as I remember which is which! ha comes first...) へ is just plain easy, ふ is oddly easy to remember (it's very distinctive) and ひ looks like a happy face.

My words of today were:

akarui - light

kurai - dark

nani - what

kutsu - shoes

mise - store

depaato - department store

booshi - hat/cap

Apparently Thursday is a good day for learning Japanese.... I feel all educated today. HA! Or maybe it's just that my guilt kicks in only once a week.