coffee no. 16

Last night I was with my friends in the cafe (that wonderful one, of course ;). The cafe was full of people but they were sitting strangely calmly, only whispering. It turned out that there was a concert and luckily we came for the beginning of it. The singer Natalia (the Russian actress) was standing on the big old table and next to her was sitting the guitarist accompanying her. They looked so lovely in the dark, lighted only with candles inside.
Natalia was singing the old folk Slavic songs in Russian, Czech and Polish. Before each of them she told us the story she would be singing about. All songs were about love but it was something worrying in them. A man asks his sweetheart seven questions - only when she gives him good answers, he will marry her. Sister predicts her brother very hard life and when he grows up, everything come true - he can't find a real love. A man sees three apple trees - they reminds him of his three dead lovers.
Natalia seemed to believe everything she was singing about. In her long dress and old-fashioned shoes she was like a woman out of this world. Woman who KNOWS.