ABOUT ME

I'm a bilingual multiculturalist computer scientist. I grew up on the soccer fields and bike trails of Minneapolis, MN. I like singing, snapping, whistling, playing the accordion, and making musical merry together. I love riding bikes and enjoying the great outdoors. I am tall, skinny and smiling.

PHILOSOPHY

The Golden Rule

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Apart from involving a friend's couch surfer in one of our Swedish lawn game get-togethers I haven't yet participated.

Interests

Spanish language and culture
Whistling
Snapping
Intellectual/philosophical conversation
Singing with people
Dancing badly
Listening to every kind of music from every corner of the globe
Computer Science - from 0's and 1's to MVC frameworks, to how technology affects our society
Cycle-touring - unplugging and living on bike for extended periods of time
Kubb - a no pressure-all-fun-times Swedish lawn game
Trying new foods
Spending time outside and in parks
Exploring
Telling stories, and listening to story-telling.

• culture
• singing
• theater
• dancing
• technology
• traveling
• eating out
• blogging
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• soccer
• computer science
• ecology
• geology
• science
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Black Cat White Cat - Emir Kusturica

Music:
Gogol Bordello
Manu Chao
Beirut
Chancha Via Circuito
Yann Tiersen
Calle 13
Goran Bregovich
Los Jaivas

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Only one? But I can't choose!

I studied abroad for 6 months in Madrid, Spain. There are too many cool stories to list here. Details are available on my blog:
http://carlschroedl.com/blog/travel/

One night I discovered a drunken theater troupe pedaling a bicycle-powered wheeled cabin while carousing the bike paths of Minneapolis.

In high school I burst my middle-class English-speaking Caucasian bubble by playing as the only white kid on an inner city youth soccer team for two years. I learned a lot of linguistic and cultural lessons that they can't teach you in a classroom.

While cycle-touring from Minneapolis, MN to Madison, WI, I met a fellow cycletourist in the middle of nowhere. He was a German named Richard. I admired Richard's sense of adventure because he had decided to spend his summer between high school and university traversing a country where they spoke a language that he "got D's in" throughout high school. We rode together. We compared and contrasted American and German culture. We discussed the energetic sustainability of societies. I learned part of the German national anthem. I hosted him at my place in Madison for a few days before sending him on his way. We keep in touch.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: Computer Programming, Bike Maintenance, Spanish, and English.

I'd like to learn: more about all of the above, small-scale agricultural techniques, ecology, geology, music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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