- Student; On Campus
Jamaican student Briony Wilson ’07 loves to cook, and eat, especially her native dishes. Unfortunately, she’s having a hard time finding proper jerk seasoning in New Hampshire.
“I absolutely love to cook and cater,” said Wilson, a resident assistant who is working on her Global M.B.A. with a certificate in operations management. She plans to start a career in operations management, hopefully for a hotel or a manufacturing company.
She loves cooking for her residents and friends; kidney beans and rice, curry chicken, brown stewed chicken, plantains, dasheen and green bananas. Her new signature dish, which she discovered in Florida while completing her internship for her SNHU Bachelor of Applied Science degree in hospitality administration, is sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
“Everybody loves it. Nobody is allergic to marshmallows and sweet potatoes,” she said.
Language wasn’t an issue for the Montego Bay native. The primary language in Jamaica is English and television is American-based. Two of her half sisters live in Tampa, and she visits when she can. The changing of the seasons and driving in snow is a different story.
“Having to go shopping for all the seasons – it’s a little expensive. The summer clothes, the fall clothes, the winter clothes. I’m adjusting,” she said.
The daughter of a single mother who never went to college, “I’m coming here to try to help myself,” Wilson said, to study and gain more international business experience. Before arriving at SNHU, she worked at a hotel in Scotland.
In addition to being an RA, she’s also a senator in student government and a part of the International Students Association. She has made friends with students from all over, including Ecuador, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Lebanon, Maldives, Turkey, China and Trinidad.
“I made friends and now I’m comfortable with myself and my surroundings and my apartment,” she said. “I like meeting people from all over the world. We have something that brings us together: We’re all people.”
