MY WORST FEAR HAS HAPPENED

So my macbook decided after skyping with my sister for 3 hours last night to freeze and then once I tried reviving it by shutting it off and back on it decides to stay attempting to load with the white screen. One of my worst fears coming abroad is that my laptop would break, and as I have found to be true my fears weren't just in my head. I spent hours trying to get to talk to an apple support worker on the phone in english, complete failed attempt. I'm already stressed about 15 million other things, the last thing I need is for my laptop to break, I can't afford it or to mentally deal with this. Luckily my sister was able to conference call me to the US support, I'm on the phone with him for an hour trying things, it's just not working, then we try some keyboard sequence (mind you I had been doing that all day trying to fix it) and I finally get to my home screen. Try some disk utility thing to check two things and they clear to be working fine but he still advised me to get to an apple technician.... great so now I have to find a way to an apple store that isn't in Florence (or find some computer store in Florence that can help but oh wait I don't speak any Italian....). Trying to back as much as possible but of course nothing is open when I need it to be (where the hell is a 24/7 CVS when you need one!) so I can't get to buy an external hard drive, so hopefully i'll be able to find one but if my computer decides to go against me again and I have to get a new hardware I'm literally going to go further insane. Yeah am I being dramatic? Yes but I damn well have a just reason for being so, this is one of the main things I just did not want to have to deal with while I was here. Wish me luck.... I swear this is Steve Jobs' ghost personally attacking me... He dies and suddenly my mac which has done me no wrong practically ever miraculously has issues? This has to be a joke.