我家住在杭州富義倉旁，我的爸爸是一名船長。

一年的大半時間里，他都在運河上開船。

我非常想他。

每天，我都會沿著運河游步道，從富義倉走到拱宸橋，等他回家。

My family live next to Fuyi Granary in Hangzhou.

My dad is a captain.

He works on the ship for most of the year.

I miss him so much.

Every day, I walk along the canal from Fuyi Granary to Gongchen Bridge, expecting him to come back home.

我從小就愛聽爸爸講運河的故事。

他告訴我，中國大運河有2500多歲了。

它本來像一張拉開的弓，后來又被拉成了一條直線，成為古時候南北通行的“高速公路”。

康熙、乾隆兩位皇帝，就是從北京出發，沿著運河一路南下到杭州的。我每天都盼著，沿著運河南北走一趟，好好看看它，然后去運河的那一頭找爸爸。

I was brought up in the stories about the canal from dad.

He told me, the Grand Canal in China is more than 2500 years old.

It looked like a drawn bow at first and then was straightened as an express way running north and south in olden days.

The emperors Kangxi and Qianlong used to travel all the way south along the canal from Beijing to Hangzhou. I wish to embark on such a journey too and meet my dad.