Different term/holiday system. We do 10 week terms with two week breaks at quarter, mid and three quarters and end of year is like 6-8 weeks or something. The kids I know (including my homeschooled lot who only followed school terms because gymnastics runs on school terms otherwise the closest we get is bunkering down a bit in school holidays as everything is insane then) reckon this one is preferable as they think not having the occasional breaks in between would cause them to burn out moreso than they already are. As far as I'm aware the ones I know don't have direct experience with anything other than the system we have over here but I do know that some of them have friends that have relocated here or elsewhere and also have online friends.

Actually when we would have been at school it might have been 12 week terms as I do recall it getting shorter at some point. Or maybe that was just at uni as I remember the one I was going to at the time calling them "shorter, smarter semesters" which most people attributed to less teaching time while charging the same amount (which understandable, but from memory the lecturers were available for the same amount of time, you could just make appointments with them to discuss anything you were having problems with/wanted to talk about rather than just seeing them in class and there was supposed to be more individual study time but uni students fresh out of school and desperate for freedom to "do whatever they wanted" and not be scheduled to within inches of their were unlikely to realise/use that).

Your summer plans sound pretty good.