Interviewer: What other experiences have you had as a teacher and where?
Mr. Gisby: I've got a long career now, maybe end of it. I started at school in Wimbledon, where they play tennis in England. I was teaching there for 3 years. Then I went to Markham for 20 years. I was headmaster in the secondary section for 15 years. Then I went to Montevideo in Uruguay, I was headmaster and was 4 years there.
Interviewer: How many years have you worked as a headmaster?
Mr. Gisby: Fifteen plus four is nineteen, plus five is twenty-four, last year twenty-five and this year twenty-six.
Interviewer: What inspired you to choose this work?
Mr. Gisby: Uhm… When I was at school I loved my chemistry teacher. As he was teaching us, he was doing experiments and he was writing things on the board and I loved chemistry in those days. And I ended thinking “Uhm.. It looks like a nice job and a nice thing to do. He got clothes, he got a car, he got a house, so you can make a good living from being a teacher. So that’s what... The seed was when i was actually at school, a little bit older than you. I was about eight.. seventeen years old and I effectively made the decision there, because I saw it was enjoyable. Basically, it was helping people, I always tried to help the people that I can.
Interviewer: Now let's talk about some more personal things: tell us about your family
Mr. Gisby: Well my family, I lost my mom and dad. I´ve got my sister, who´s back in England and I'm regularly in contact with her. Here, I married a Peruvian lady, and that was 31 years ago. We have a son called Joshua and he is 26 years old. He's done his degree in England, but he wanted to come back to Peru. So now he si teaching English in Casuarinas. Well, that's my family. We live in Cieneguilla.
Interviewer: Wow, coming from Cieneguilla to here.
Well, during the week we live in a little flat in chacarillas, but our real house is the one of Cieneguilla, we've been there 16 years there.
Interviewer: What is the best moment of your life?
Mr. Gisby: Well, I had a lot of best moments. It's hard to say which is the best. I mean it could be, the day I got married, the day that my son was born, big occasions I have ,or the day I become a christian as well, that was a very big day in my life. I don't really think I have on special day, I had many special days.
degree in England, but he wanted to come back to Peru. So now he si teaching English in Casuarinas. Well, that's my family. We live in Cieneguilla.
Interviewer: Wow, coming from Cieneguilla to here.
Well, during the week we live in a little flat in Chacarilla, but our real house is the one of Cieneguilla, we've been there 16 years.
Interviewer: What is the best moment of your life?
Mr. Gisby: Well, I had a lot of best moments. It's hard to say which is the best. I mean it could be, the day I got married, the day that my son was born, big occasions I have ,or the day I become a christian as well, that was a very big day in my life. I don't really think I have on special day, I had many special days.
Interviewer: What was your favorite subject when you were in school?
Mr. Gisby: Chemistry and Music. I had the option of doing either of them as a career. I ended up choosing chemistry.
Interviewer: What is your favorite movie?
Mr. Gisby: My favorite movie, well, I like movies that leave you something inside, that show something spectacular. You might not now the film. The film that I most enjoy is “Gifted Hands”. You know the actor Cuba Gooding Jr.? Actually he is not made a lot of films recently. It's about a doctor search that has a pair of siamese twins that are joined together by the heart. So they had to separate them, otherwise one or both would have died, but no one had done it before, so they had to invent a whole new method, and he did it. The operation took 30 hours. Both of the children lived, so that was really moving.
Interviewer: What type of music do you listen to?
Mr. Gisby: Classical! I love classical. I play the flute, lots of classical music. I used to be in a rock band, I’ll show in a minute a photo of me and my rockband. And I play jazz and I play blues.
Interviewer: I like jazz, like Kenny G.
Mr Gisby: Kenny G, yeah I play the saxo, like the same songs as Kenny G and he plays it a lot better than I do.
Interviewer: Yeah well he plays good music. So, what do you do in your free time ?
Mr. Gisby: Compose music, play music. I’ve got a really big garden and I plant trees. I love planting trees. I’ve just brought my secretary a granada. They are big and round. I've got a tree with about 80 granadas. We also got tangerines, pecanas, lucumas, granadillas, nectarinas, we've got about 40 different types of trees , and I look after them a lot. I like cooking as well, is very scientific, Chemistry. I cook a lot of Indu food, peruvian as well.
Interviewer: What is your inspirations like to compose music?
Mr. Gisby: It’s a funny situation, as I wanted to write as many different styles of music as possible. So like that was electronic music there can be used in films. Or a tango which is a very different style. It means you need to study; what makes a Tango, a Tango. How could you decide that music is a Tango. What makes it sound like a Tango and then how could I write music to make it sound like a Tango. It’s a challenge.
Interviewer: So is like you learn new things.
Mr Gisby: Yeah, it’s learning things, I love learning things. Like different styles of music, I play forty different styles of music. Reggae as well, even chicha. Reggaeton, a little of reggaeton, but is electronic reggaeton.
Interviewer: We are going to play to a game : Ping-Pong Words, it is a tradition for us. We are going to say a word and you are going to tell us the first word you think of:
Mr. Gisby:
Book: Bible
Family: Joy
Life: Opportunity
Food: Curry
Sport: Life
St george's college: Opportunity, as well. Future as well, is another possibility, this is a school a nice future.
my son was born, big occasions I have ,or the day I became a christian as well, that was a very big day in my life. I don't really think I have one special day, I had many special days.
Interviewer: What was your favorite subject when you were in school?
Mr. Gisby: Chemistry and Music. I had the option of doing either of them as a career. I ended up choosing chemistry.
Interviewer: What is your favorite movie?
Mr. Gisby: My favorite movie, well, I like movies that leave you something inside, that show something spectacular. You might not now the film. The film that I most enjoy is “Gifted Hands”. You know the actor Cuba Gooding Jr.? Actually he is not made a lot of films recently. It's about a doctor search that has a pair of siamese twins that are joined together by the heart. So they had to separate them, otherwise one or both would have died, but no one had done it before, so they had to invent a whole new method, and he did it. The operation took 30 hours. Both of the children lived, so that was really moving.
Interviewer: What type of music do you listen to?
Mr. Gisby: Classical! I love classical. I play the flute, lots of classical music. I used to be in a rock band, I’ll show in a minute a photo of me and my rockband. And I play jazz and I play blues.
Interviewer: I like jazz, like Kenny G.
Mr Gisby: Kenny G, yeah I play the saxo, like the same songs as Kenny G and he plays it a lot better than I do.
Interviewer: Yeah well he plays good music. So, what do you do in your free time ?
Mr. Gisby: Compose music, play music. I’ve got a really big garden and I plant trees. I love planting trees. I’ve just brought my secretary a granada. They are big and round. I've got a tree with about 80 granadas. We also got tangerines, pecanas, lucumas, granadillas, nectarinas, we've got about 40 different types of trees , and I look after them a lot. I like cooking as well, is very scientific, Chemistry. I cook a lot of Indu food, peruvian as well.
Interviewer: What is your inspirations like to compose music?
Mr. Gisby: It’s a funny situation, as I wanted to write as many different styles of music as possible. So like that was electronic music there can be used in films. Or a tango which is a very different style. It means you need to study; what makes a Tango, a Tango. How could you decide that music is a Tango. What makes it sound like a Tango and then how could I write music to make it sound like a Tango. It’s a challenge.
Interviewer: So is like you learn new things.
Mr Gisby: Yeah, it’s learning things, I love learning things. Like different styles of music, I play forty different styles of music. Reggae as well, even chicha. Reggaeton, a little of reggaeton, but is electronic reggaeton.
Interviewer: We are going to play to a game : Ping-Pong Words, it is a tradition for us. We are going to say a word and you are going to tell us the first word you think of:
Mr. Gisby:
Book: Bible
Family: Joy
Life: Opportunity
Food: Curry
Sport: Life
St george's college: Opportunity, as well. Future as well, is another possibility, this is a school a nice future.