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Coming is like El Niño!
El Niño is spanish. It is the spanish word for child. Like all things spanish, it
is dangerous. It kills people and burns down trees. This child is more than a child. It
really isn't a child at all. It is a storm. A deadly storm that kills people and burns
down trees.
Warm water usually builds up around australia. But not anymore with el niño. El
Niño moves the warm water from australia to somewhere else, namely to other places. Where
are these other places?. These are places that also have water, but water that usually not
as warm as the warm water El Niño moves to these said other places. These other places are
to the east. Of the water.
In Peru, they have many names for many things. One of the things they have names
for is for people who go fishing, go fishing to make a living. If we had a word for this
kind of people that word would be "fisherman". But we don't. In Peru, they have different
names for things than we do in America. They call that kind of people "pescadores".
That's Spanish. That's what they speak in Peru. When El Niño comes, these "pescadores"
can't catch any fish. El Niño is caused when the Peruvian gods get angry. They have been
angry for millions of years and have made El Niño for millions of years. Many many moons
ago, the Peruvians committed human sacrifice to satiate their gods and end the flood that
was caused by El Niño. In today's modern dog-eat-dog work-a-day world of scientists,
diplomats, McSalad Shakers, and George Bush Jr., we no longer have access to such
solutions. We are too proud. We will not commit human sacrifices. We refuse to satiate
the Peruvian gods. Thus, they remain angry and keep killing us and burning down our trees
with El Niño.
Instead of satiating the gods, many of these "scientists" have tried to control El
Niño with "science". They put up expensive fish-attracting-bueys that run on flashlight
batteries. Imagine, fighting the power of the gods with flashlight batteries! Needless
to say, this didn't work and everyone died.