Today is the start of New Student Orientation week at the University of PEI and Oliver is diving in with all feet.

As I write he is off on a campus tour while I chill in the parent lounge and drink coffee from my parent mug.

Thirty-five years ago this week I was in Oliver’s shoes; I told him, as we were cycling up to campus this morning, that I felt nervous, to which his response was “what have you got to be nervous about?!”

I am, indeed, a proud UPEI parent.