我家住在杭州富义仓旁，我的爸爸是一名船长。

一年的大半时间里，他都在运河上开船。

我非常想他。

每天，我都会沿着运河游步道，从富义仓走到拱宸桥，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.

我从小就爱听爸爸讲运河的故事。

他告诉我，中国大运河有2500多岁了。

它本来像一张拉开的弓，后来又被拉成了一条直线，成为古时候南北通行的“高速公路”。

康熙、乾隆两位皇帝，就是从北京出发，沿着运河一路南下到杭州的。我每天都盼着，沿着运河南北走一趟，好好看看它，然后去运河的那一头找爸爸。

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.