On March 19th free block, I attended a beading activity. I did not know much about the art itself and was going there with no expectations. I was surprised by hoe relaxing it was. The instructor, if I may call her that way, is a self-taught beader and she had come to teach the participating Champlain students. She showed us how to begin a project: drawing the design on a paper. It could be anything we wanted. After that, we would stick it to a different material and start beading. I had drawn a flower, and the beading work was much more difficult than I had expected. It was important to put…