What happens in chapter 10 of Esperanza Rising?

The winter season gets colder, but Esperanza must spend more time outside because she has a job tying grapevines. At the end of the grape-tying season, Esperanza and Miguel visit Mama in the hospital. The doctor explains that Mama has contracted pneumonia and cannot have any visitors until she is better.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.