After an approximately three hour bus ride, not counting stops along the way, we arrived in Calama with the strong Chilean summer sun beating down. After unloading our buses, the choir sang briefly, and then went with their homestays to settle in.  Of course, they didn’t leave without a picture of them with their homestay families.

Suitcases all in a row as buses are unloaded. Calama Homestays Pickup and Sing in Calama, Chile on December 20, 2015. (Photo by E Bryan Crenshaw III).

Suitcases all in a row as buses are unloaded. Calama Homestays Pickup and Sing in Calama, Chile on December 20, 2015. (Photo by E Bryan Crenshaw III).

Greeting song for homestays. Calama Homestays Pickup and Sing in Calama, Chile on December 20, 2015. (Photo by E Bryan Crenshaw III).

Greeting song for homestays.

Homestays enjoying the greeting song. Calama Homestays Pickup and Sing in Calama, Chile on December 20, 2015. (Photo by E Bryan Crenshaw III).

Homestays enjoying the greeting song.