baton twirlers, the cheerleaders, the flag spinning, the marching band, the mascot, the Saluki shakers, and the last group of cheerleaders. There is an empty space between the last group and the coming cars. Anyway, it was good to have a minute to organize what I was able to write. The rain did not stop at all, it stopped raining for some minutes, but it started again. The Interim Chancellor, Dr. Brad Cowell passed driving a car, there is a couple in this car, I am not sure who they are; but I guess they are from the '65 class which is celebrating 50 years of their graduation. One of the reasons why I have attended this parade for these years is because of the candy that it is thrown to the children by people from these cars. Candy of …show more content…
The dragon was well designed and constructed. The next marching band was the Blackcats from Goreville, Illinois. The first group of this band was the flutes followed by the clarinets, the saxophones, the trumpets, trombones, and drums. What has called my attention from this marching band was that almost all the players are girls. There are 12 boys, and 20 girls in this band. Their uniform was also different from the two preceding bands, the Blackcats uniform has a more military style, with a turtle-neck, black and yellow jacket, and black pants. The SIUC Equestrian team was also in the parade, it was a group of people walking, some of them were wearing the same long-sleeve shirt. The next fraternity had made a cardboard castle; from one of the windows of this castle, the king and the queen of this fraternity were waving the crowds. The queen was wearing a very fancy gown, the king worn a button down shirt which he had rolled up its sleeves. The rest of the people in this truck were wearing outfits like kings and queens. A couple was cheering up very much to this fraternity, maybe they were part of this fraternity once, or they have their child on it because they were very enthusiastic when this fraternity passed, they also took some