modern students, old language

I really need to get over preconceptions. I don't know exactly what I was expecting in terms of classmates for the Old English class, but I was briefly startled when they looked just like any other class at UML - guys with baseball caps, women with flip-flops, someone with a skateboard, and the guy across the aisle whose first language was Hebrew had a large guitar case with him. There are various skin colors, a variety of people whose first language wasn't English, a number of people not majoring in English (the guy to my left is majoring in Criminal Justice, for example). The class is full and there is a waiting list. I still don't have a schedule for my clinical practicum time, but hope to know by tonight or tomorrow. I've agreed with the English teacher that if I can't make it to all the classes because of a scheduling conflict, she'll let me sit in, but that I won't be able to take it for credit. Seems fair to me.