i need to make some flyers to leave and give to people, where on my macbook can i do that?
If you have Pages (part of iWork ‘08) that would be the application that has the templates you seek.
Otherwise, MS Office Mac 2008.
Pages is the way to go. You can get a trial at http://www.apple.com/iwork and then you can “buy” the serial code
If money is tight (but seriously, $70?), then you could do a layout in TextEdit. You get most of the font choices; and so long as the flyer doesn’t need to gfx-heavy, TextEdit is workable.