Research purposes only!

I have posted already about the reactions I get when I tell people I am a translator. Some context may help.

The circles where I usually find myself chatting with others about my occupation (relatives, my daughter's school and daycare, places where I run errands) are all located in or near the area where I live: Nebraska, USA. These circles typically consist of people who speak English as their native language.

I will be traveling out of town next month so I can visit my relatives. They live in Puerto Rico, so opportunities to visit are few and far between. So I am curious about the response I will get when I am in my Spanish-speaking homeland and the inevitable question comes up: "What do you do for a living?"

Other unavoidable questions:

• "Why are you a translator? Did you study for that in college?"
• "When was the last time you ate codfish fritters/empanadillas de chapín/asopao/mofongo?"
• "Why doesn't your daughter speak Spanish?"
• "You are planning on wearing that? IN PUBLIC?!" (Sí, mami)