Essay Topic:"If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer."

The most needed change in my hometown is a sports center for young people. Most of the high school students in my town don't have a specific pastime activity. They get bored and waste their time by wandering around the town aimlessly, especially in summer. If we had a sports center, I'm sure that they would do sports all the time because they would have fun. 

Apart from having fun, doing sports would also benefit them in their growth. Through sportive activities, they would learn team work, dedication, responsibility and respect. They would be better individuals when they grow up. It would be more beneficial to them than most of the lessons they take in high school. I think, having a strong, mature character is more important than knowing math or physics.

I should also mention about the wasted skills. There are very talented youngsters in our town but they continue to live their lives unnoticed. Most of these talented teenagers could be discovered if we had a sports center. With the right training and motivation, they could be very successful. Who knows, maybe the next Olympic champions of Turkey would be from our town.

As I mentioned above, without some leisure activities, most of the students are getting bored and pass their very valuable times with useless things. These teenagers’ energy is like the fire, and their free time is like the gunpowder. When these two elements are very close to each other, it's just a matter of time before something bad happens. When these students meet up, they may start to form a gang-like entity. As they grow up and get stronger, they may commit some petty crimes, especially if they can't get the required family education and support.

For these reasons, I hope that we can persuade the local authorities to construct a sports center in our town.