Learning the あ / ァ column

My Midori notebook's spread on learning the あ / ア column. Definitely not the best handwriting you have ever seen  I'll improve it eventually, I believe. 

The way your hand moves and create strokes really define the line in Japanese alphabet, which I never experienced in Romaji. In Romaji, we can start from left to right to create an alphabet, let's say, H. I can create H from left, or middle, or right. Making the horizontal line first and then the vertical lines, or vica versa, or mixing the process. And everybody will still end up recognizing the alphabet as "H". 

But in Hiragana and Katakana, I can see the bold and thin line of the stroke really give a different nuance and sense of the alphabet and helping define wether the alphabet is typed right or wrong. This need a lot of practice.

Also, I have seen lots of websites that provide quicker way to learn Japanese language and alphabets. But I prefer to do it a bit slower. I feel it better for me to feel the words, and alphabets and language immersing on me slowly and remembering it better this way. Perhaps I am more of the visual and written type, or perhaps I am just an old, conventional middle aged housewife who need a conventional middle aged way to learn. 

Anyway, my little fingers got purpled because today is the National Election Day here in Indonesia! Almost everyone from the age of 18+ in my country is giving their voice to choose our next president and congressmen. 

I hope the candidates I had chose will win the election, but whichever come up as the winner, I hope they will work for the best of the country! Amin!