Harrison Hill Elementary School held its 36th annual Gobble Off today/Tuesday, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
This yearly tradition brings students together in Harrison Hill’s auditorium to cheer their fellow classmates on as they compete for the best gobbler.
Before that, though, students compete within their classrooms to decide who they’ll send to the school-wide competition. For one third grade class, their representative was Genesis.
She’s taken home second place before, when she was in kindergarten, but this year she’s competing in a different age bracket; third through fifth graders. But she’s motivated to win.
“I want my family to be happy because some of my family members are not in this country and they’re in like Mexico and North Carolina and I want to make my family happy because they never get to have a family dinner.”
But she wasn’t really aiming for first place.
“I’m trying to get the pie again.”
The first place winner gets a 15 pound frozen turkey to take home to their family and second place receives a frozen pumpkin pie. Genesis says she had pumpkin pie for the first time this year and really liked it.
Ultimately, Genesis didn’t take home the pie or the turkey, but she’ll keep trying.